ABSTRACT
The study of how mobile phones are used to strengthen cohesion in couples, the affective bonds, and the coordination of its members, as well as to identify the couple itself, helps to reveal the dual nature of social cohesion: the achievement of trust, sharing, solidarity, and identity in an interdependent relationship involves not only the establishment of a network of mutual obligations, negotiations, and latent and explicit conflicts, but also control and power relationships. Alongside the usual terms employed to define social cohesion, such as harmony, trust, shared experiences, sense of belonging, togetherness, mutual support, and loyalty, lie subjugation and power dynamics as well.
