ShareThisWant to keep your cell phone from ruining a relationship? Remember to:
_ Pay the bill on time, especially if the phone is in the name of your significant other.
_ Erase any text messages, photos and call-log entries that might raise eyebrows.
_ Refrain from using your cell phone to strike your boyfriend upside the head. Don't throw it at him, either.
_ Avoid borrowing a phone from your present girlfriend if all you intend to do is call your former one.
By the numbers ...
67 million: Mobile phones purchased in the United States during the first half of 2006
3: Times former model Naomi Campbell has faced legal trouble connected to alleged assaults-by-phone.
816.6 million: Worldwide sales of mobile phones in 2005.
5: Number of days in the July trial of a Missouri man accused of shoving a mobile phone down his former girlfriend's throat. He says she tried to swallow it to keep him from seeing whom she had been calling. She testified she was so drunk she couldn't remember. The jury deadlocked. The judge declared a mistrial.
