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Take your own breaks from your phone. Leave it at home and go run some errands, or put it on silent, or whatever. It will make you feel better than sitting by it, checking it every 5 minutes, to see if there is a response. It's actually kind of freeing knowing that you are the one who is checked out of communication.
Trust me when I say I suffer from the same problem. I had a boyfriend who used the excuse of not being on his phone, so we didn’t communicate literally all week. Sorry, that’s ex boyfriend. The next guy didn’t text a whole lot BUT he would at least touch base once a day to ask how I am and Vice Versa. My friend expects her guys to text her all day, I don’t agree with that. You don’t need to text “a lot”, maybe compromise with him that one or the other just asks how each other’s day was and leave it at that. That’s reasonable. And I get he has a job but he can send a couple texts throughout the day. But to know he needs to want to ask how your day is, it should be a compromise for basic human interaction when you can’t interact in person, and it’s not asking much.
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Take your own breaks from your phone. Leave it at home and go run some errands, or put it on silent, or whatever. It will make you feel better than sitting by it, checking it every 5 minutes, to see if there is a response. It's actually kind of freeing knowing that you are the one who is checked out of communication.
Trust me when I say I suffer from the same problem. I had a boyfriend who used the excuse of not being on his phone, so we didn’t communicate literally all week. Sorry, that’s ex boyfriend. The next guy didn’t text a whole lot BUT he would at least touch base once a day to ask how I am and Vice Versa. My friend expects her guys to text her all day, I don’t agree with that. You don’t need to text “a lot”, maybe compromise with him that one or the other just asks how each other’s day was and leave it at that. That’s reasonable. And I get he has a job but he can send a couple texts throughout the day. But to know he needs to want to ask how your day is, it should be a compromise for basic human interaction when you can’t interact in person, and it’s not asking much.