I get a new smartphone, get all excited about getting the phone and setting it up the way I want to, using cool new features, etc. Then? I grow tired of the phone and look to either return it where I bought it or possibly sell it / trade it on Craigslist for another phone.

Last night I felt like my wife baited me into a discussion about getting another phone. She had sent me an innocent text that if read out of context could sound bad. Inappropriate at least. I was pretty sure that the person sitting directly behind me at the choir concert last night could read my screen. Pitfall of owning a 7 Plus. My wife toyed with the idea of sending more messages like that - to which I protested. Then she made the comment about the screen being too big for me, and I agreed. I even said it was starting to become annoying. Then she says "you'll live".

My son is using my old phone now, and occasionally I pick it up and it makes me miss the feel of it. It was an SE - much smaller, more pocketable, just a great overall phone. I think my wife has seen me look at my son's phone and others.

I feel that once the interest is lost in buying and trading cell phones, I replace it with something else. Last week I screwed around on my computer and installed Linux as the primary desktop OS. Wife didn't appreciate that. Then I switched from one computer tower that I have to another. And back again. Each time I lost interest or changed my mind about the setup and wanted something different.

The longer I own this iPhone, the less I want it. At one point I said I should have a regular flip phone and a separate PDA (if needed) for my calendar and contacts. Wife said I would never be comfortable with that.

My phone splurging stopped with my switch from Cricket Wireless to Verizon. I signed a two year finance agreement and bought an iPhone SE. Within two weeks I swapped it for a 6S Plus. Then I went back to the SE after a week. Two months later I sneakily added a line of service to the account and bought a Google Pixel XL. The wife caught me, made me return the phone and cancel the line. Then a few months later my wife decided to add our son to our current wireless plan, so he could get my phone and I would upgrade to another. I wanted a Pixel or some other Android phone, but my only option was an iPhone. I've had the iPhone since January, which is a longer stint than recent memory. I still think my wife enabled my behavior some by allowing me to upgrade in January. Between the three iPhones - four if you count the insurance replacement I got after I "dropped" one of the SE's on the ground because it got a smudge on the screen I couldn't get rid of - and Google Pixel I've had 5 different phones since August. All changes were approved, sometimes begrudgingly, by my wife.

Problem is, I've been wanting another phone for a few weeks now.