“A relationship without trust is like having a phone with no service. You play games”

“A relationship without trust is like having a phone with no service, and what do you do with a phone with no service? You play games!” is a saying that has been printed on many images. The saying was posted on Twitter on November 6, 2011.
 
“Drizzy” (a parody account of the Canadian rapper Drake) posted the saying on Twitter on March 2, 2012, but Drake did not originate the saying.
 
   
Twitter
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@Goshemm_
A relationship without trust is like having a phone with no service & what you do with a phone w. no service ? You play games
4:39 PM - 6 Nov 2011
 
Twitter
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@NicoleLeGreat_
A relationship without trust is like having a phone with no service and what you do with a phone with no service? You play games !
4:48 PM - 6 Nov 2011
 
Twitter
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@JennieRenee
A relationship without trust is like a phone with no service! And what do you do with a phone that has no service? You play games!
5:43 PM - 6 Nov 2011
 
Twitter
Drizzy‏
@DrakeYMCMB_
A relationship without trust is like having a phone with no service. And what do you do with a phone with no service? You play games.
1:02 PM - 2 Mar 2012
         
Google Books
More One Liners, Jokes and Gags
By Grant Tucker
London, UK: Biteback Publishing Ltd
2013
Pg. ?:
A relationship without trust is like having a phone with no service. And what do you do with a phone with no service? You play games.
   
Google Books
Dealing with the Elephant in the Room:
Moving from Tough Conversations to Healthy Communication
Grand Rapids, MI: Revell
2015
By Dr. Mike Bechtle
Pg. ?:
A relationship without trust is like a cell phone without service. And what do you do with a cell phone with no service? You play games.
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Facebook 
Truth Slaps
October 5, 2016 ·
A relationship without TRUST is like having a phone with no service. Because what do you do with a phone with no service? YOU PLAY GAMES!!!
 
Reddit—The Affair
“A relationship without trust is like having a phone with no service. And what do you do with a phone with no service? You play games, Final Thought.” - Diane Krueger gave quite the cryptic message post break up with Joshua Jackson. (i.reddituploads.com)
submitted October 27, 2016 by K80SaurusRx
   
Google Books
I Wasn’t Born Bulletproof:
Lessons I’ve Learned (So You Don’t Have To)

By Maci Bookout
New York, NY: Post Hills Press
2017
Pg. 97:
“A relationship without trust is like a phone with no service. And what do you do with a phone with no service? You play games.” –DRAKE.
 
19 July 2017, Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), “All work and no play makes a wedding” by Kenzi Griffith, pg. 2:
Trust is a big thing in a relationship. As my “adopted” mother once said, “There is no relationship, if there is no trust.”
 
Which always makes me think of the famous saying, “A relationship without trust is like a phone with no service. You just play games.”