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Friendship Support / by SatinLacePoet

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...See more Hello! I am having a problem with a few of my friends being slow to reply to texts. Or, in a lot of instances, they just don’t reply at all. And both of these behavior patterns tend to bother me. Especially when I put so much thought and effort into texting them. And it isn’t reciprocated. I also, sometimes, like to send them pictures and gifs, but most of the time, they don’t make any comment about them. And I wonder if they ever received them. And because I am an “HSP”, or highly sensitive person, I tend to feel things very deeply, so it really hurts my feelings, when they are either slow to reply to my texts, or don’t reply at all. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind if it takes them hours, or sometimes, even several days to reply. But what bothers me is that one of these friends tends to not reply, at all, to my texts, on a very regular basis. And she usually doesn’t even reply, if I send her pictures or gifs. In addition, I have two other friends that do the same thing and sometimes, don’t even reply to texts that are wishing them a happy birthday or holiday wishes. And two of the three of these friends also go through periods of time, where they are slow to call me back, after I’ve called them. I also want to add that one of these friends doesn’t like to text, but my feeling on it is that it only takes less than a minute and sometimes even less than 30 seconds, to just send back a quick text of acknowledgment. Yet, most of the time, they don’t even do that for me. I also have told one of these friends, ie the one that doesn’t like to text, that it hurts my feelings when she won’t even take the time to send me back s quick text of acknowledgment. And though she apologized to me for it, she only improved in her text communication with me, for a short time. And then she went right back to being slow to reply, or mostly not replying at all. When these friends are slow to reply, or don’t reply at all to my texts, it makes me feel like they don’t care about my feelings. Or that they take my reaching out to them for granted. I have thought about talking to them about this, but I’ve only talked to one of them, so far and because she just went right back to this hurtful behavior, I am reluctant to talk to her, again, about it. I also worry that if I try to talk about this to my other two friends that they may think it comes across as weak or needy. Because I don’t think any of them are as sensitive as me. And I’m afraid they won’t understand why this behavior bothers me. So I am reluctant about talking to them about it. Do any of you feel hurt about this stuff? And how should I handle these situations? Should I talk to them about it? Or just keep it to myself and continue to be miserable about it? Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks so much for reading!

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