one word responses?

thanks, and i do realize that. I never said or thought we have a relationship of any kind… FYI we’ve met up twice, have several mutual good frineds and he’s moving to the US in a few months. im certainly NOT pursuing anything or putting my life on hold for a LD guy!! we just like to keep in touch and chat, we have fun doing it.

the point in my question wasnt to see “if he likes me” etc, but to decode general texting behavior. ive never had my primary means of communication be via text, so im learning and curious what others think.
thanks, appreciate your feedback, it is something to remember :)

In my experience, guys that text only are not looking for anything serious. A man can claim all he wants that he’s just not a “phone guy” but a man that is really into you will pick up the phone to chat even if it’s for only 5 min. If he’s primarily using texting, his focus is not just on you. He’s prob talking to multiple girls and hoping for something casual. It’s a low energy form of communication. He’s not putting worth any effort here and you’re still texting him.

I dated a guy for 3 months that only ever texted me and replied with one word texts all the time. I even asked him not to and told him if he did that, then I’d quit replying. He didn’t change, not really. He ended it shortly after because I was “expecting too much” and he didn’t want a gf. He was selfish and immature.

My now boyfriend hardly ever texts me. We see eachother in person and FaceTime on the evenings we don’t see eachother.

I know you say don’t want something from this but be careful. This texting convos can be addicting and it’s easy to build something up in your head, but it’s not real.

Texting is a very passive and lazy form of communication IMO….

Most importantly, you can do it anywhere. Which means when you are getting the one word or little response, it’s probably because he is off living his life and only responding briefly to satisfy a response but he is not at all focused on the conversation with you.

Or he is having a text conversation with someone else and can’t really focus on you.

I used to hang out with GFs and both of us would chat via text with guys who contacted us… We did it with little to know real attention. In fact we would even tell each other how to respond to the man and laugh about it. It’s because we believed men who primarily talked through text and not phone were a waste of our time. For all we knew they were doing the same thing.

Look up e-tethering. This is a way men string you along via texting. They randomly throw texts out to you when bored … Sitting in traffic, etc… Sometimes it will be a convo and other times just a one or two liner to make you giddy that he might be thinking of you. When, in fact, he likely texted 5 other women the same thing.