Unroomies: Deep Conversations

Put the phone down. When you pick it up, the light has moved. Unroomies is for couples who love each other and live like roommates. The house runs. The calendar works. You talk all day, mostly about pickups and groceries, and at night you sit on the same sofa, each on a phone. The app opens on a living room after dark. One lamp, one sofa, and the two of you on it. HOW A NIGHT GOES Each evening the lamp hands down a note with one small thing to do together, at home. Some nights it’s a question to ask each other, the kind that turns into a deep conversation. Some nights it’s something to do: sit on the same side of the sofa, make their usual drink and stay in the room. It takes about ten minutes, and you put the phone down to do it. Once a week the night is a real date. When you come back and tap We’re done, a little of the lamp’s light leaves the flame and lands on the sofa, under both…