3. He doesn’t want to do things your way.
“If I jump every time she tells me to jump, sooner or later, she’s gonna’ run the show!” said a young man in his late teens who wants to take control of when to respond to her texts. Particularly, if he’s an authoritarian type, he would want to take the initiative in all communications, however minor they may be. In this case, you should just leave him alone and he’ll respond to you when he feels like it.