I admit I have a problem with texting back in a reasonable timeframe. I don’t want to keep people waiting, but I’m often just currently busy, unsure of what to reply or just too overwhelmed to do so, especially if I’ve been “hanging up” too many people and all I see is the messages piling up. I also have a terrible understanding of time and sometimes days to weeks will fly by without me replying and I will be shocked to discover it’s been that long.
I do reach out in the end, but all that does is reset the timer I have until I’m an awful person again for not replying fast enough and they think I hate or don’t care about them.
A few examples that of this were in messaging with potential dating purposes, where if I was messaged late at night, read the message, went to sleep and just went about my morning the day after, I’d be getting messages like “Every girl is the same…” “wow, how come you’re so rude? What have I done to you?”
But that’s just an example. I feel this way when texting people in a normal/platonic way, too.
But texting really does just feel like people throwing ticking bombs your way all the time. And once you’ve replied, they message again and you’ve got a new bomb in your hands.
Does anyone else feel this way?