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Read Through These Quotes When You Are Tempted To Text Him

Be strong. Don’t let your phone or laptop suck you into thinking you need the past to make you feel something.
Holly Riordan
March 30, 2017
“Put your phone down, dear. Because it’s not worth all the sleepless nights, the what-if’s, the pillows stained with tears.”
— Jenifer Chong, Don’t Text Him
Tagged: Texting, phones, Missing You
“Don’t text him. Because deep down you know he doesn’t care, being strung along isn’t fair.”
— Jenifer Chong, Don’t Text Him
Tagged: Texting, Effort, caring
“Don’t text him. Because that means undoing all the getting over him you have done.”
— Jenifer Chong, Don’t Text Him
Tagged: Texting, Getting Over Him, Moving On
“Your phone beeps and you shouldn’t care. Your phone beeps and you should probably put it on silent.”
— Ari Eastman, When You Text Him Back Even After All Your Friends Said You Shouldn’t
Tagged: Texting, Phone, Alerts
“She refuses to text you, because you haven’t been texting her. And in her mind, that means that you haven’t been thinking about her at all.”
— Holly Riordan, This Is Why She Won’t Text You, Even Though She Thinks About You Every Single Day
Tagged: Texting, Missing You, one-sided
“She doesn’t need to text you, because she has self-respect. Self-esteem. Self-love. And that’s all she really needs.”
— Holly Riordan, This Is Why She Won’t Text You, Even Though She Thinks About You Every Single Day
Tagged: Texting, Self-Respect, Self-Love, Self-Esteem
“She won’t text you, because it won’t do her any good. It’ll only give you the opportunity to hurt her again.”
— Holly Riordan, This Is Why She Won’t Text You, Even Though She Thinks About You Every Single Day
Tagged: Texting, hurt, Heartbreak
“Sending them a text is not going to fix that emptiness inside you tonight. It may be temporarily exciting or helpful or healing. But if you know, deep down, that they’re not the one, sending that text will always be just a bandaid, never a solution.”
— Kim Quindlen, When You Want To Text Them And You Know You Shouldn’t
Tagged: Texting, Empty, Bandaid
“The reason you want to text them right now is probably not because you feel, deep down, that they are the one. The reason you want to text them is something else – loneliness, lack of closure, boredom, a sense of being lost, perhaps the feeling that everyone around you is settling down and you don’t want to be the last one left.”
— Kim Quindlen, When You Want To Text Them And You Know You Shouldn’t
Tagged: Texting, Lonely, Closure, Bored
“It’s okay to want to text them. But don’t follow through with it. It’ll just further postpone the healing time that your heart needs to go through before it’s ready to open itself back up.”
— Kim Quindlen, When You Want To Text Them And You Know You Shouldn’t
Tagged: Texting, Healing, Moving On
“If you text and he doesn’t respond, you’ll just feel shittier.”
— Ari Eastman, 17 Things I Tell Myself When I Feel The Urge To Text You
Tagged: Texting, Response, Depression
“Always have the urge to text people I shouldn't be texting after 11 pm.”
— Wallace
Tagged: Texting, Temptation, nighttime
“Remove the old texts from your phone, the messages that gave you hope, that made you believe that the two of you could be something. Delete them all.”
— Molly Burford, Delete His Number
Tagged: Texting, messages, delete
“Put your phone down. Walk away from it all for a while. Feel the distinct mixture of sadness and freedom pumping through your veins, the feeling that only comes with the end of something painful and the beginning of something more.”
— Molly Burford, Delete His Number
Tagged: Texting, Phone, Sadness
“Delete his number. Stare at your phone for a minute to let it sink in that you won’t be reaching out to him on your toughest nights and that he won’t be the one to comfort you.”
— Molly Burford, Delete His Number
Tagged: Texting, delete, goodbye
“Let them go, walk away, and delete your ex on social media.”
— Rosie Kelly, Why You Should Delete Your Ex On Social Media
Tagged: Texting, Social Media, Exes
“It’s extremely hard to get over someone you dated and dedicated a good chunk of your life to. It’s hard enough to run into them in person, but having to see their face on every app you open is one hundred times worse.”
— Rosie Kelly, Why You Should Delete Your Ex On Social Media
Tagged: Texting, Social Media, Exes
“I don’t want to say something I’ll regret. When I delete my ex from social media, it’s my way of walking away.”
— Rosie Kelly, Why You Should Delete Your Ex On Social Media
Tagged: Texting, Social Media, Exes
“Do not text him. No, not even one simple ‘hi.’ What are you going to get out that? Do you really care about how he’s doing or what he’s up to? Do you really want to talk about the weather or what sports game he’s watching? Do you really think he’s going to respond with what you want to hear?”
— Lauren Martin, Do Not Text Him: 54 Things You Should Do Instead Of Texting Him
Tagged: Texting, Exes, Questions
“It’s never worth it. It’s never worth being the one who breaks first. It’s never worth being the one waiting. You’re stronger than that. You’re not the one who waits around, but the one who doesn’t even notice when he texted. You’re the one in control, the one who doesn’t need his vacuous responses to feel good.”
— Lauren Martin, Do Not Text Him: 54 Things You Should Do Instead Of Texting Him
Tagged: Texting, Control, Power
“I’ll never answer your texts, I’ll never follow you again on social media, I’ll never reach out to you when I’m missing you like hell because you don’t deserve me. You proved to me that you don’t deserve me, especially when I gave you nothing but all the love in my heart.”
— Becca Martin, You Fucked Up, Remember That When You Try To Crawl Back Into My Life
Tagged: Texting, Missing You, deserving
“So when you think you’re missing me you better keep it to yourself. You better put down your phone and you better remember you’re the one who fucked this up, you’re the one who deserves to suffer and the one who should miss me like hell.”
— Becca Martin, You Fucked Up, Remember That When You Try To Crawl Back Into My Life
Tagged: Texting, Missing You, Suffering
“I miss you the most during the day when I want to text you to tell you about random silly moments that popped up throughout my day.”
— Alexandria Brown, I Just Want To Know That You Miss Me
Tagged: Texting, Missing You, Stories
“Take a second to be real with yourself. You are not texting your ex because you genuinely care about what homework assignment they’re working on. You are not texting your ex just to tell them how angry you are. No. You are texting them with the hope that they will realize the error of their ways, will say, ‘I miss you, and I want to love you,’ and will come running back to you.”
— Alexia LaFata, For The Love Of GOD, Do Not Text Your Ex
Tagged: Texting, Exes, Missing You
“Why text them anything at all if every single one of the possible responses you can get will ultimately leave you feeling empty?”
— Alexia LaFata, For The Love Of GOD, Do Not Text Your Ex
Tagged: Texting, Empty, messages
“If you absolutely must, type out the message. Then, send it to YOURSELF, and wait many, many hours. I promise you that the extreme desire to send your ex that text message will pass.”
— Alexia LaFata, For The Love Of GOD, Do Not Text Your Ex
Tagged: Texting, messages, Exes
“Ignore his text because you and I both know you deserve more than someone who makes you wonder how they feel about you.”
— Kirsten Corley, This Is Why You Need To Ignore His Text
Tagged: Texting, Feelings, Ignore
“Ignore his text because he’s not making a point to show up.”
— Kirsten Corley, This Is Why You Need To Ignore His Text
Tagged: Texting, Effort, Ignore
“Ignore his text because you can. That lie you’re telling yourself about why you’re answering or you’re not strong enough to ignore it, is only that… a lie. You’re strong enough to ignore his text.”
— Kirsten Corley, This Is Why You Need To Ignore His Text
Tagged: Texting, strength, Ignore
“Put down the phone, darling. That’s right, I said put it down. If he hasn’t texted you back in an hour, or two, or three, just put it down. You are worth so much more than that.”
— Lacey Ramburger, You Are Worth More Than Someone Who Won’t Even Text You Back
Tagged: Texting, phones, Waiting