Engaging in cycles of anxious texting, over-explaining, or monitoring response times is a sign of dysregulation rather than a reflection of someone's actual worth or the relationship's quality.

“If you don’t get a text for one [ __ ] day and you already are hell in a handbasket and creating narratives and stories, then this has nothing to do with the text and everything to do with the rejection and your perception of what the space in the text means.”