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Every time you text him, it ends in tears. Or stress. Or anger. Or disappointment.

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GEMINI: You send screenshots of your conversation to your friends and ask them to come up with a response for you.

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Sometimes, you leave questions unanswered. Sometimes, you leave comments unread.

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I’m not going to text you because I’ve been learning how to control my impulses, how to listen to my head over my heart, how to take a step back and ask myself whether I’m doing the right thing or the most tempting thing.

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I’m fun to fuck — but not to fuck over. 

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I should have realized I was asking the absolute minimum from you — and you couldn’t even give me that.

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Sometimes, you should take their silence as a hint to delete their number.

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“I’m not ready for a relationship right now.”

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I don’t want to feel this powerless. I don’t want to care this much about someone. I don’t want to get this excited when I see a stupid text.

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On my rough days, the days when I feel lonely and isolated, the days when the voice in the back of my head assures me that nobody cares about me, you have no idea how much a simple text means to me.