Thanks pilot. I looked back at our communication over the past month or so. 98% of the time he contacted me first. I replied most of the time, sometimes after many hours, sometimes with one word simple replies like "ok" or "thanks".
You may be right that when I do not respond or when I respond very "distantly" like with one word, it makes him think. It never seemed to have an effect one way or the other on what happened next with the future communication. But I can't see much of a pattern in our communication other than he contacts me first almost all the time. (on purpose on my part as I try to maintain NC)
When we met up last week he did mention something about when you send someone a text and don't hear back right away it makes you anxious and it is like an addiction. He was talking about an old ex girlfriend at the time but I'm not 100% sure he was talking about her, it was vague and a tangent. Maybe he was talking about our text communication, I don't know and I didn't ask at the time.
I will strive to at least be more short/distant in our communication the next few times and see what happens. Thanks so much for the tip guys!
The weekends suck. My imagination runs wild as far as what he is doing and who he is with. I guess a tiny consolation is that he might be thinking the same about me. But I have no idea.
Hugs, Lisa
Me: 34 H: 30 M: 4 years BD: 6/15/14 He moved out 6/30/14 OW1: EA then PA after BD Now he's dating multiple OWs I'm over it and moving on.