Hi All,

I blocked texting on my phone so that I cannot send or receive texts. I try to mention it to girls, but I also figure, I'm DHVing if she sends me a text and does not get a reply. For her there is now way to know that I did not receive the texts. It saves me like $7 per month on my cell phone bill. So money wise I think it's worth it. But the primary reason I blocked texting is that I was obsessively checking my phone for new texts and being tempted to text girls to get a reply. I am awful at text game, and I find my life a lot more peaceful now that I don't have to check my cell in case a flake finally texted me back. Do you think this peace of mind is worth it or do you think I am missing out on an important part of flirting? My friends tell me that girls hate calling and that they love to text.

For about a month my phone wouldn't receive/send text messages and I found it to be a serious obstacle when it came to lining up day 2's etc. I told girls I couldn't receive texts but this just made it harder for them to get a hold of me, or they just forgot I couldn't receive texts and sent them anyway without me knowing. I am convinced I lost a couple of potential F-closes because of this.

Texting is so common place in today's world, you need it available man.

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As vicpark said you block texts and you loose girls. Doubt that alone is worth the $7 per month savings. As far as your obsession with having to check your phone all the time and sending a text just to get one, learn to chill out and don't become an attention whore. You have to realize these girls got lives that they live they can't reply to every text you send them when ever you send them. Lastly is money so tight that you can't pay $7 per month for text?

We are moving forward. Not backward.

It's 2011 and then, 2012. Not 2010.

Texting is so commonplace that disabling it won't give you "DHVs" but the tag of a "strange dude" or "that weirdo".

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thank you for the posts guys. i should have had texting although i have enjoyed not having it! i wonder if a girl texted me and i did not reply and she gave up. but i dont think so. cause if i call a girl and picks up and we go on a date. then i call her again and she picks up and we go on another date. then i call her again and she does not pick up all of a sudden and i leave a voicemail and she does not call me back. it's over and texting has nothing to do with it. (it was the girl on the rebound that had her dates lined up probably)

another case: i call the girl and she picks up. i ask her out for a last minute date, she says no, need to do another time, i say bye will call back later. i call again, she picks up. same story. i should not have been asking for last minute dates and should have went along with her offering to schedule a time in the future. i call her again, and she does not pick up and i leave her voicemail. she does not call me back for another month and a half! she apologizes for not calling for so long i say fine no bid geal, so anyway, i finally agree for a time in the future. we do meet! she is late. i leave and go get dinner myself. she comes in late to the date and freaks out that i am not there - five missed phone calls in a row from her. ha! i was nearby so i came back and we had a good date. for the second date we agree to meet on saturday. i call her on friday an she confirms the date and says call me during the day. i call her the day we supposed to meet at a dance and she does not pick up. i leave her a voicemail and she never calls me back! i went to the same dance on my own and saw her there alone trying to meet with other guys haha. no bid deal i was not mad or hurt or anyting. i asked her for a dance and she danced with me but seemed awkward. we did not talk about her not calling back. but anyway, my moral of the story is that with a series of dates, i think if she always picks up and then does not pick up all of a sudden and not call back it's a sign that it's probably over and time to move on to a new girl. if i had texting, she could have kept leading me on, right? like texted me with an excuse. then i would not known and texting her. so i dont want her to screw with me like that.

i also see a lot of guys on this forum fretting over what texts mean and what they texted wrong and so on. i figure because i am HORRIBLE AT TEXTING i always say the wrong thing, i am probably going to ruin things by texting rather than improve them. i mean there are enough nuances in all other aspects like talking and flirting and texting just makes things more complicated.

i do realize that texting is also flirting and can be fun. but.. sigh.

so i probably will enable texting on my phone again. just to get texts from girls in the future. and if i see my dating life improving, i will keep texting. if texting becomes stressful again, i will block it again.