We've all heard the saying, "a watched clock never moves. In fact, countless studies have shown that texting can create a great deal of anxiety. Whether you use texting to keep in touch or you use it to avoid difficult situations, texting is both a good thing and a bad thing. In other words, texting has the power to bring people closer together or to create distance depending on the underlying motivations of the people doing the texting. When it comes to relationships, researchers have discovered that it's not how often people text one another that matters, but how "text compatible" they are.

20 Loving Texts to Send Your Partner When Dating Long Distance



5 Ways You SHOULD Be Texting in Your Relationship
So many loves start with a "hey. That first "hey," if all goes well, is returned; from there, the "hey" becomes a plan to get together. Which becomes another plan to get together. And then more plans, and then more plans, until making plans becomes redundant.


5 Ways You SHOULD Be Texting in Your Relationship
Marriage is a concept as old as history itself. Text messaging, on the other hand, is a little over twenty years young. But the thing about us humans is that we have the capacity to adapt. And adapt we do.
On the other hand, it has completely changed the course of dating forever, and not for the better. When I was in middle school if you liked someone you had to pick up your landline phone, call their home number, and speak to their mom to ask if they were even available. This took balls!