Topic
Texting
12 articles.
How to ask someone out over text
Most people don't fail to get the date. They fail to ask for it clearly enough for anyone to say yes.
Double texting is fine
Somewhere along the way we all agreed that sending two messages in a row is a crime. It isn't.
Keeping a conversation going without small talk
Conversations rarely die from one bad message. They die from twenty safe ones in a row.
What to text after a first date
The hours after a good first date are where a surprising number of them quietly fall apart.
Voice notes, calls, and when to stop typing
Text strips out tone, and tone is where most of the meaning lives. Sometimes the fix is to simply speak.
The first message that actually gets a reply
"Hey" is not a message. It's a request for someone else to do all the work. Here's a structure that does the work for you — in three short lines.
When they don't text back
Silence has no content. Everything you hear in it, you put there yourself.
Emoji, punctuation and the tone problem
The same six words can read as flirty, bored or furious depending on a single character at the end.
How to cancel without killing it
Cancelling isn't the problem. Cancelling without offering anything in its place is.
Getting off the app and into a room
A match has a half-life. Every day you spend in the app chat, the odds of ever meeting drop.
Before you send that photo
No moralising here — just the things worth knowing before you press send, and the one rule that matters most.
Texting someone you met in real life
You already have the thing apps spend weeks building: a shared moment. Use it in the first line.
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Dating apps 12 First dates 12 Flirting 12 Relationships 12 Confidence 10