Is it ever OK to get anxious about getting a text/message back?

[Virge]

I think if you don't get an immediate reply to every text message you send you should send another one reading something like F**K YOU YOU SELF CENTERED BITCH!!! There are studies that show this works best on mothers and grandmothers than on boyfriends. Tthe women will respond ten times more speedily than a boyfriend already looking for a reason to dump you anyway. He'll read that message and be more pleased that you give him a good reason to break up with you than he is with the copies of the home porns he made with you that he's going to mail out to everyone to show them your imitation of a power bottom imitating a paraplegic doing buddhist throat singing instead of moaning.

Also you start sending nude frontal selfies with face out to random guys to invite them to chat

[LONDONER]

I'd encourage bypassing the flawed and indirect communication method of texting when it is so treacherous for you in a relationship.

Simply talk. Use the phone as a phone.

If you have a BF who avoids talking and prefers to pepper you with messages instead, that is probably a sign that there is a communication problem beyond your anxieties.

Just talk. It's worked for millions of years.

I've posted this before but it's worth posting again:

[Hardheaded1]

Although the topic is ostensibly texting, the effect of the play-by-play recap is to promote drama.

Line by line, we're being dragged into a he-said she-said tale that encourages the readers to side with the poster in a blame game. It is a familiar song.

[Virge]

Although the topic is ostensibly texting, the effect of the play-by-play recap is to promote drama.

Line by line, we're being dragged into a he-said she-said tale that encourages the readers to side with the poster in a blame game. It is a familiar song.

Yeah.. he almost set off the GS drama alert warnings. It's good thing he didn't. I'd have sent a herd of horny fundamentalists with 20 grit condoms.

[Rareboy]

Thank you all for your advice and input.

I heard back just around 4:00 o'clock today, but it was a bit discouraging.

We were planning to see a show this Saturday, as per my friend's idea. However, he never communicated where the show was, what time it was, and if/when to buy tickets. I believe that it's on him to communicate that information, since it was his idea, so I didn't probe at all, hoping he'd deliver that information, which never happened.

The message informs me that the show has sold out, which is usually the case of these kind of things (almost always sold out the day of and possibly before too).

To my surprise, he does (I think half-heartedly) attempt to repair the evening, by suggesting either to go to the venue (still don't know where it is) to see if tickets are available, or doing "something else."

Before his show idea, I had suggested we could have had dinner at my place (our previous 2 meetings had been coffee). In retrospect, I think that was a bad idea given the nature of the relationship and what I have been learning. That suggestion was completely ignored (e.g. he didn't even say "oh well I wouldn't feel so comfortable with that").

I don't think I'll bother attempting to save the evening with him.

In regards to the texting rate, he did (ironically) ask why my response was so long at one point.

Delete his number.