

{"id":34544,"date":"2019-02-19T04:42:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T04:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marriage.com\/advice\/?p=34544"},"modified":"2025-07-07T11:45:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T11:45:33","slug":"texting-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marriage.com\/advice\/relationship\/texting-relationships\/","title":{"rendered":"What You Need to Know About Texting Relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-34546 size-full\" title=\"What You Need to Know About Texting Relationships\" src=\"https:\/\/image.marriage.com\/advice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/What-You-Need-to-Know-About-Texting-Relationships.jpg\" alt=\"What You Need to Know About Texting Relationships\" width=\"804\" height=\"350\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the ever constant rise of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">smartphones<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and social media, relationships nowadays have begun to migrate more and more into the virtual realm of the internet. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the past, people used to get to know each other in person and assess their compatibility and relationship by face-to-face interactions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this decade, technology has begun to change more and more the way that we perceive relationships and sustain them with our partners. It was found in a<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.semanticscholar.org\/paper\/Texting%2C-sexting%2C-and-attachment-in-college-Drouin-Landgraff\/6d9a4385566c4c736d08ddaa5538463de9c9ef9b?navId=paper-header\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">study<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> done by Drouin and Landgraff over a lot of 744 young college students that texting and sexting are very common and significant between them in terms of attachment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The researchers found that regular texting is more common between young couples who have a greater degree of attachment between them, while sexting was found to be more common between partners with low degrees of attachment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What you need to know about texting relationships is that texting can also sometimes become very annoying. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Constantly sending texts to your partner can sometimes be exasperating, and if it seem that you&rsquo;re doing this out of<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marriage.com\/advice\/infidelity\/emotional-infidelity-texting\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mistrust<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, then this issue has to be dealt with asap. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To maintain a healthy texting relationship doesn&rsquo;t necessary mean to stare in front of your phone non-stop 24\/7.<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Set-the-rules\"><\/span>Set the rules<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some couples are engaged in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marriage.com\/advice\/relationship\/distance-makes-the-heart-grow-fonder\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">long-distance relationships<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but that doesn&rsquo;t mean that they can&rsquo;t keep in touch and maintain their affair at a healthy level. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don&rsquo;t send too many texts, because this can seem sometimes too overwhelming for your partners. Maybe their working or their schedule is too heavy and cannot reply, but that doesn&rsquo;t mean they don&rsquo;t care about you. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Talk with them about your levels of comfort regarding texting, and settle how often you should text each other in your texting relationship.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"When-you%E2%80%99re-not-in-the-mood\"><\/span>When you&rsquo;re not in the mood<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-34547 size-full\" title=\"When you&rsquo;re not in the mood\" src=\"https:\/\/image.marriage.com\/advice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/When-you%E2%80%99re-not-in-the-mood.jpg\" alt=\"When you&rsquo;re not in the mood\" width=\"804\" height=\"350\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes you just want to lay off the phone and just relax, but you should always inform your spouse about it. If you&rsquo;re not in the mood to text and stare at the phone&rsquo; screen in your hand, let your partner know about it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tell them that you&rsquo;re going to take a break for the day from your phone. Be sincere, don&rsquo;t lie. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Texting can oftentimes be very distracting. Of course, no one will be hurt if you text a harmless How are you? But if you constantly start sending huge chunks of texts, you can prevent your partner from accomplishing their tasks. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Try not to overdo it.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Avoid-conflicts-when-texting\"><\/span>Avoid conflicts when texting<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although sometimes can be hard to abstain from venting out all of the frustrations built inside, but try to reserve this for a face-to-face meeting with your texting partner. It will be a never-ending novel of criticism, and you will see that none of you will get to a final conclusion.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The-downside-of-texting-relationships\"><\/span>The downside of texting relationships<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because we live in the era of instant gratification, texting can often time lead to a lesser connection in the relationship. As opposed to texting relationships, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marriage.com\/advice\/romance\/have-a-romantic-relationship\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Romantic relationships<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> require meeting in person, going out on dates, face-to-face conversations, and all the other elements that are required to maintain a healthy and loving affair. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes, constantly <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">texting<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with someone and not meeting too often in real life can mean that your texting partner is either a player &ndash; and is seeing other people &ndash; or they feel lonely and just wants to use you.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The-advantages-of-texting\"><\/span>The advantages of texting<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marriage.com\/advice\/communication\/good-communication-basics\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">face-to-face <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">communication<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> can become more complex and detailed, but when texting you don&rsquo;t have to worry about details such as shaking hands or blushing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can seem more clever when texting because you have time to think the message. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For individuals who are introverts or shy, texting can be a valuable solution for their anxiety.<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want to know how high your prospects are with your flirting partner, texting offers a less awkward and more casual approach to this. People meet on social media, exchange their contact details, begin texting and eventually set up a face-to-face meeting, where most of the social anxiety has already been dissipated because of the conversations held in the online environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, if you have different work schedules, or if you&rsquo;re in a long distance relationship, texting can seem to be the ideal solution for you and your partner to stay in touch, even if you&rsquo;re not at each other&rsquo;s side for the moment.<\/span><\/p>\n<pre><em><strong>Related Reading:<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marriage.com\/advice\/love\/love-letters-for-her\/\"><em>170+ Sweet Love Letters to Her From the Heart<\/em><\/a><\/pre>\n","protected":false,"raw":""},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the ever constant rise of smartphones and social media, relationships nowadays have begun to migrate more and more into the virtual realm of the internet. In the past, people used to get to know each other in person and assess their compatibility and relationship by face-to-face interactions. In this decade, technology has begun to change more and more the way that we perceive relationships and sustain them with our partners. It was found in a study done by Drouin and Landgraff over a lot of 744 young college students that texting and sexting are very common and significant between <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1419,"featured_media":34546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[2516],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriage.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriage.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriage.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriage.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriage.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34544"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriage.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74816,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriage.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34544\/revisions\/74816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriage.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriage.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriage.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriage.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}