texting

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1. Never text all day. It makes you appear like you have nothing better to do with your time, and frankly, if you have that kind of time, find a new job. I exchange a good morning with my girl, and at night I leave it to her to reach out. Otherwise I’ll keep it short texting, or give her a call to catch up. I prefer personal interaction over typing, and texting can lead to misinterpretations. I rather keep it light to avoid any misunderstanding.

2. I didn’t notice how often my partner and I texted until we broke up. Usually we said good morning, texted a bit during work with hours-long chunks of silence in between responses, and texted a bit in the evening and say goodnight. We would just text a stream of consciousness lol. Like what was happening at work, a meme, complaining about something. It’s very different from texting in the dating phase, where you want to make sure you’re not being over-available to someone

3. Response time can vary. For me, it’s typically between a minute and 2 hours, skewing towards faster. Then again, things can come up.

   Depending on the person, it can be plans, venting about work, venting about family, talking about interests (you don’t know a person through and through when you first start dating), talking about controversial things like “did you hear about the slap at the Oscars??” And many other things. 😀