5. “Why didn’t you respond?” Nagging after 5 minutes.
“I have a life to live, too! Besides, there must be something fundamentally wrong with me if I can respond immediately each and every time she texts me,” complains a young man in his late teens. It’s unreasonable for you to expect him to jump on it every time you send a message, and he’ll soon find it to be too much work to keep up with your demands. Take a deep breath and keep cool. Tell yourself that he may be in the middle of something at work and can’t text you back right away.