That friend I was supposed to hang out with got food poisoning on Friday and moved to Denver on Sunday. Why in hell didn’t she say she was moving?
The woman I was supposed to go on a date with said she has a lot going on and wanted to reschedule. I hit her up today and got no response.
The nuanced part of this is a few different concepts that I have given some thought to, as it obviously happens to everyone, you can be flirting, even kissing, and even talk in person about a concrete plan, and then get nothing the next day.
One: Occums Razor, simplest answer is the correct one, meaning they don't want to go, and this is their "out", meaning the thing for you to do, is nothing
Two: Our cultural guide posts and guard rails, often tell both sexes, that it is for the man to pursue, and woman to be pursued. This can be contradicted by the stance you can sometimes see here, as in, "if she's really into you, she will pursue", yes, but, there are dozen variables to that scenario, what you see here is the "effort", or "pulling back", the idea that they will encourage you to do more, by them doing less, to gain some sort of power/insight into your behavior. Rarely works on me, I'll just stop entirely and move to someone else.
Three: Avoidance, the idea that text based communication makes it so much easier to be more passive, more avoidant, and side step even a slightly complicated conversation entirely
Four: It's not the right time, now, and could be later. This is something I can see over and over again, there are so many dynamics in people's lives, and people in general are more neurotic and anxious than ever, anything could come up, that day, that instant, that changes things, or leads them to avoid the text, which leads us to our next one
Five: People are sincerely overwhelmed and losing it. They meant to respond, and didn't. They didn't know how to respond, so they didn't, and now it's 17 notifications down in their threads. The common knowledge years back, and still to this day, is along the lines of "we all have our phone in our hands every second, and so a non returned text means they don't fukk with you", this CAN be true. But, also, if you ever saw how much nonresponsivenss and unread messages the average PERSON has in their phone, it's pretty compelling, that people are just overwhelmed.
-They have three different group chats
-Their family
-Their DMS on multiple apps
-Their dating app messages
I see some women's phones with dozens and dozens of unread text and missed calls. It makes me anxious, because I couldn't live like that, everything is clean on mine. Having read heavily lately about tech addiction and social media effects, this is not all some kind of far fetched excuse.