“Three kinds of messages will keep me from texting back: One: A leading question with no data. Ex: ‘What are you up to next Tuesday?’ When it’s open-ended, someone is usually trying to trick you into helping them move. Two: Guilt Texts. ‘Hey, I know you’ve been too busy to hang out and you missed my birthday, are we ever gonna hang out?’ There’s nowhere to start that convo but ‘I’m sorry’, and men are, historically, terrible at that. Three: Just a winking emoticon, nothing else. Don’t do that.” – Jack, 40.
“Sometimes we don’t text back so the girl will like us more. The whole ‘be less available’ thing. We usually pull this bullshit when the girl is being friendzoney. It also falls under the ‘girls like assholes’ routine…so we think we are being jerks when not texting back.” – Robin, 28.
“For me, I do text back if I am not preoccupied. It’s when I am busy or focused on something else I decide to reply back later. Usually I always forget.” – Boone, 24.
“Sometimes men are nervous and are actually very into you, but they put off texting back because they want everything to be perfect. I’ve put off texting someone back that I really liked for the STUPIDEST reasons ever: Nerves, gas, a zit, hungover, cut myself shaving and don’t want her to think that I’m uncoordinated idiot who can’t even shave myself, or because she wants to go get food and I’m too embarrassed to admit that I just ate the left half of the Jack In The Box menu. And they could be busy. Time flies when you’re busy while time stands still when you’re waiting for someone to text back. I’ve had many times where I didn’t realize that my girlfriend was waiting for a response to something for like a half hour because I decided to do the dishes or something and the time flew. Also, I’ve straight up ignored texts from a girl because she was crazy.” – Tony, 32.
I had to interject here and ask, can you elaborate? What makes a girl “crazy”?
“I’m talking about legitimately unstable. Like bunny boiling, can’t remember what you just said because she was too busy thinking about wearing your skin for her birthday, CRAZY. Not any sort of secret code for ‘Girls, this is what you’re doing that makes guys think you’re crazy’ or anything.”
Ohhhh, okay. That’s a relief?
So women, now you know. And apparently, we do it, too. 
