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  • kimad
    kimad Posts: 3,010 Member
    I also love Anna's outlook, the knight on the white horse made me LOL!!!

    haha!! I saw your comment before the edit, so just thought I'd make one thing clear hun:

    I dont touch on sensitive subjects in text!!!

    While I think texts are an amazing tool for communication, to speak to a few people at once, to confirm plans, to share a thought, or a moment, to ask on a date or say thank you for a date etc............I really think it's a bad idea to argue or try and solve a gripe or dispute, or basically get overly emotional in text.

    Whilst 'nice' texts are great to look back on, relive, smile and get all gooey over. Emotive texts have the opposite effect!! Tone is misread, words misconstrued, and when you re-read stuff like that, it just gets ugly. And you end up getting more angry and frustrated. And a 'no reply' is the most annoying of all!! Those kind of discussions need body language.......etc

    I've been bitten this way before, and I just dont go there anymore.

    Anything remotely sensitive or open to interpretation needs to be discussed in person. IMO :flowerforyou:

    I agree Anna...

    In 2011 my first online dating boyfriend (lol) dumped me via text, I was horrified and somewhat naive that people actually did this! When I met my kid's dad we didn't even have text!!!

    So going forward from that situation I said I would do my best not to touch on such a thing in text, and I made sure to always make calls for things that were serious, misinterpreted, tricky or whatever... I have pretty much stuck true to this for the most part. I broke up with the gambler eye to eye! I made date 5 guy call me after I got his text, I asked funny guy to call me twice (once he did, the other he ignored)...That being said, the girlfriend in Australia that I mentioned once, well we can't call eachother given the circumstance :)

    GIven that I had intiated a convo with him that went unanswered for 48 hours, I don't feel bad about last night sending that text... I had a 50/50 shot of getting a phone call, and in reality I didn't even get a reply to my text...so no harm or foul there IMO!

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