The "Accidentally on Purpose" Text

Wow this is an old post but it must of been a sign from up above, lol. I had posted on here about a week ago about a FWB situation. Everyone told me to just forget about him as he seemed insecure and needed constant validation. I haven’t reached out and neither has he. I was seriously thinking today about texting him over an earring I had left at his place once and he kept forgetting to give back to me. Not very expensive but my favorite pair. Yes it would be a childish excuse but at the time it made sense in my mind so I’m glad someone commented on this post six months later. Snapped me back into reality. Thanks.

Yes. Received them. My reactions to them ranged from rolling my eyes to showing my friends the text and we all had a good laugh. Please, EVERYONE, be above this! It’s more transparent than you think.

I’ve done it in the past, obviously with men who didn’t care enough about me to actually make an effort so you know how that ended.

But I’ve done it actually accidentally so many times that I didn’t even think it was that transparent.

Last time To a Guy I was dating and I sent it to my very close friend.

‘That’s okay you can’t make it Friday, we’ll try the Ethiopian restaurant some other time.’

That went to my very very close Male friend. Decided, since it was Groupon and expiring soon, I should just ask the male friend to join me. De talked at work on chat all day and on whatsapp after work, and we hung out when he had food for me to try it the other way around but never did anything ‘proper’ together. He was super excited, felt awful when he got sick and we had to move it. 2 weeks later he was my Bf.

I consider it out first date because when we walked down the street he hooked in my arm and that’s the first time we ever touched in about 7 years of knowing each other and 10 months of talking every single day. He just needed to know I wanted to be asked out to start taking initiative. Now he’s all initiative and proper male Bf behaviour. Lucky me.

So actual accidental texts do work sometimes, I get why People try the Fake ones. Only, those are covered in anxiety when they reach their destinatikn Dinther effect isgone and it makes it worse.

This is even more hilarious “tragic”. Similar story to another poster. I was texting my friend about my (now ex) boyfriend who according to me, had other girls on the side as he was almost never available on a certain day of the week. I said the worst things about him, very heavy message.

And, classic, I sent it to him! I realized it immediately and started sweating! He replied saying that he couldn’t see me on that specific date because he was actually going hunting with his relatives (and he knows I HATE this stupid sport) and sent me a couple of pictures to prove it. Turned out to be the truth but after that our relationship was never the same again and we eventually split.

I’ve had a relationship on hold until my separation is finalised.
She occasionally accidentally texts me I assume to get a reaction as this never happened when we were together or when we texted a lot before we began our relationship.
I’ve been keeping minimal contact over the last few days since an argument.
Last night she texted me saying hi goergous thanks for tonight still up with friends come back if you can 😉😉
Now I’m sure I was meant to get this and didn’t get the oops that wasn’t meant to go you although she rang a few minutes later but hung up after before I could answer.
Why would she do this she knows I’m in love with her and want to continue our relationship asap

It was one when our breakup was fresh. I swear it wasn’t intentional and I was so mad. I didn’t want to give him the satisfaction of getting messages from me. Especially as he knew, that breakup broke me into pieces.

I texted “Mom, can you buy me some cereal? Not the bran flakes the nice ones, thanks.” 2 minutes later I realized I didn’t get a reply from my mom so I checked and noticed that I sent it to my a**hole ex. Was so pissed and I figured he probably thought I did it on purpose too and that’s made me angrier.

Guys know all the tricks…c’mon.
I really did send an accidental text once…I mean it was literally an accident.

God…I was sooo pissed at myself. I texted “that was by accident” and he said ‘sure’

I was LIVID

I think that it’s childish unless you make it seem like it really was meant for someone else. If you “accidentally” send a girl you just went on a date with a text about how cute she is, chances are she’ll she through it and it’ll just seem childish. But in the case of trying to reconnect with someone you don’t know well, it can be a good idea. Say something like “yeah, that makes sense” or “really, I didn’t think of that” anything that actually seems like it was meant for someone else, and then send the “sorry, that was meant for someone else” text. Sometimes it’s just enough to start a conversation, other times it doesn’t work but there not much to lose from it. If your trying to reconnect to someone you actually know well, you should probably just text them directly and have a conversation, I only recommend the “accidentally text” to people who want to text someone they don’t know well, or if it may seem odd to text them out of the blue. Hope this helps.