Ways to stop yourself from texting them?

Don’t tell yourself that you’re powerless over this. By saying “how do I stop myself” from texting him – you’re acting like you’re powerless to the urge to text him.

You just don’t text him. That’s it. Each time you want to pick up the phone, put it back down and do something else. Read Eric’s articles 100 times if you have to, and remind yourself that every time you text him, you’re acting needy. Don’t be needy. Do something else other than texting him.

it takes time to learn how to suppress the urge. You have to substitute this action with something more productive. Maybe whenever you want to text him, you could come here on this forum and reply some posts. You could text a friend or text yourself instead (I know it sounds crazy but I used to send myself long texts, emails, facebook etc instead of texting any guy, it helped me).

I used to go crazy trying not to text, I guess practice makes perfect. What I did was getting my phone out of sight, distract myself with anything but what really made me quit texting was the fact that I was only hurting myself. The ultimate method is deleting his number, If he’s really interested he will text and you can make him your contact again. Now I never initiate texting, I only respond and works very well. They really don’t care if you don’t initiate if they really, really like you.

Delete his phone number from your phone if you haven’t memorized it already. For future reference, you can write it somewhere that is hard to reach or give it to your friend who will only give it to you when he contacts you back.

Well he replied finally. He asked what time I get done with class last night around 11. Since I was going to bed I texted him when I got off work at 10:30 this morning and said I would be done around 4:30. I haven’t heard back from him though but I’m going to wait and try out all of your guys advice so I don’t text him.

Best way to stop yourself from texting… Go out with someone else *the more better looking, the better*, read, hang by the pool, hang with friends, workout, go check out a show, volunteer, walk your dog, listen to music, go shopping, hang w family, give painting or the piano a shot… Pretty much just do anything to keep you mind distracted until you’ve achieved the ability to have a little more self-control ;)

Update: I texted him after class to see if he wanted to meet but he had a terrible migraine. He, however, asked if we could meet tomorrow. I said I would let him know after I was done with class. What should I text him tomorrow when I’m done to see if he would like to meet? I don’t want to seem pushy even though I really want to see him.

you’re texting too much, don’t be a text gnat. Let him text you. he should exercise his fingers too

JUST STOP TEXTING! Don’t ask, don’t say hellow, don’t just don’t. If you fell like you need to talk to someone, just send a nice text to your parents, a dear friend you haven’t spoken to in a long time, but don’t text him! if he texts you, take at least 5 hours to respond, make responding to him the last thing to do in your dayly chores and if it gets to late, simply don’t do it that day, you have to give yourself value, you have to make yourself hard to reach, not all available for him, if he decides to come back for a relationship, the fact that you where available all the time will make him think he can be lazy and you won’t get a caring loving boyfriend. On the other hand if he sees he has to work to earn spending time with you he will value it more and if he decides to come back for a relationship, he would put effort because he would have been forced to see the value you have, THE VALUE YOU GIVE TO YOURSELF.

Hi Liz! We have the same case! What is it with these men, wanting time and space to sort their sh*t out! (sigh)..
Indeed it is hard not to text them. But it is harder not to text them back! What I did was I ‘end chat’ him from the chat room, so I don’t get to see his name every time i open whatsapp. Deleting his number or blocking him for me is quite a childish move.
The difference between your man and mine is, mine declared he needs time and space but cannot stop texting me all day like normal! One big fat weird breakup ever!
Hang on there, Liz!

Lauren Conrad said it best, “As soon as you stop thinking about them, they’ll send you a text message or they’ll call you because they know you just stopped thinking about them. It’s like a radar.”

I am having the same problem. And I think writing your thoughts down in your diary or your phone really does help. I’ve been doing that to keep me from texting my crush.