You Don’t Have to Text Each Other All Day

Or even every day

Niki Marinis
4 min readFeb 27, 2023
Katie Dutch — used with permission

Part of being in a healthy relationship is having your own full, fabulous life.

If you have your own interests, hobbies and friends you should be too busy to be texting someone all day or waiting around to hear from them.

Do you want to be with someone who has nothing better to do than text you all day? I hope not.

If you start getting anxious when a few hours go by and you haven’t heard from them, or even worse, if it’s only been an hour, you need to revaluate your life.

You’re either incredibly insecure with little to no self-esteem, desperately clinging to outside validation from your partner (or anyone else) that you’re still a good, lovable, worthy person, or you don’t trust your partner.

If you don’t trust your partner, stop dating them.

Did they do something to deserve this mistrust or are you insecure and paranoid? No one should have to report their whereabouts except an underage child to their parent.

If you texted a question about plans and they haven’t responded… maybe they’re busy. In the middle of something, on a call, working, showering, left their phone in the car or another room.

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Niki Marinis

Weird Girl, thrift store owl collector, heartbreaker, lush, aspiring adult. IG: DocJohnnyFever nikimarinis@gmail.com https://nikimarinis.medium.com/subscribe