I'm Not Going To Keep Texting If You Continue To Ignore Me

Aug 15, 2018

I'm tired of texting you and not getting a response. I'm tired of chasing you. This one-sided relationship is over as of right now.

I feel like I have to verbalize my decision to quit this "game" that we play of communicating with each other by text. I feel like if I write my quit letter, then it will be official. So, here it goes. I am not going to text you anymore. We've had this "relationship" for quite some time, but I've just realized how unbelievably one-side it has been and will probably always be if I don't do anything about it. I've just realized that you don't really care for me, and you never did. Here's why I feel that way:

It takes approximately 10 seconds to write a meaningful text message.

That's 10 seconds out of the 86,400 seconds that you have in every single day. Yet, you have a problem sparing 10 of them to reply to messages that I send to you. 10 seconds, and by the way, I spend many more than 10 to create the ones that I send to you. In fact, I try to create text that will make you smile, brighten up your day, or motivate you in some way. It's obvious now though, that I've failed at those goals.

When you do find the time to text me, you usually just repeat the same exact words and lines that you used last time, that we used last time. Our short text volleys end up reading like broken records sound. You don't make any effort to communicate with me at all. You just copy and paste a response just to satisfy the response requirement. I don't know which one is worse, not hearing from you for hours, days or weeks, or receiving careless and thoughtless responses from you. They're both pretty crappy deals considering the amount of effort I put into contacting you.

If you don't want to communicate with me, I wish you would just be real and tell me so.

Then you could spare me and yourself a lot of time. We would no longer have to continue with this charade of pretending to be friends. I would know that you truly do not give a crap, and then I could spend my time communicating with someone who does. The solution really is simple, but for some reason, you do not want to be honest. Well, I will no longer be in your life as a backup or some sort of feel-good reminder that you have a friend when you're at your lowest.

I refuse to chase you. I've been the conversation starter many, many times throughout the course of our relationship. I'm tired of it. Why should I have to initiate contact all the time? Why should I always be the one waiting for your response? Why can't you contact me or be the one who comes up with the icebreakers and the conversation starters? It's because you don't care. It took me a long time to accept that you don't care, but it's the truth.

I am officially quitting this sick cycle carousel. I am no longer going to reach out to you. I am no longer going to try to convince myself that you like me as much as I like you. I'm done, and I will not waste another second of my precious time.

Send these words to someone who needs to hear them.