Texts, what are yours like from your dp/dh?

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All I get is one two words with no kiss or anything at the end. I will be honest it does make me smile as he is quite affectionate face to face but I am curious if this is a man thing?

My latest are
Me - will ring u in 5
Him - ok darling
Him - morning
Me - morning
Him - how was your night
Me - shit
Him :(

Ha ha @ RedMapleLeaf

Yes, I thought the training was quite hard but I made it through. Just.

Our messages from yesterday...

Him: "Hi hun. I'm running a bit late so need to get the 6.25. Will mean I'm in to for 7.33 - sorry xxxxxxxxxxx"

Me: "No worries babe - same boat! See you then xxxxxxx"

Him: "Hi hun. Where are you? Just jumped into the second coach and couldn't find you. xxxxx"

Me: "I'm actually already at ! Made the earlier train so decided to stop at the supermarket. Will meet you there xxxxxxx"

We've been together four years but are mocked by our friends for our liberal use of kisses.... I don't think it means anything at all in terms of how affectionate we are - I have plenty of friends who never send kisses and they're still super in love. It's just habit - albeit one I like

That said they're always practicality based rather than 'saw this and thought of you'!

DP and I do lots of texting during the day. Some have kisses and some don't. Texts cover a wide range of subjects - some practical and some more lovey dovey. If he does shorter replies it's generally because he is busy

We always have kisses at the end of texts, if we don't it means we are majorly pissed off at each other.
On the odd occasion that a text doesn't have kisses at the end another one will follow with the missing kisses.

I've just had a quick look at my texts and I send kisses to most people. I have to actively stop myself putting them on the end of texts to work colleagues. I have pre-warned them that I may accidentally send kisses and to not read anything in to it

I get more affection via text. Not that he's not affectionate he just doesn't talk about his feelings face to face.

I never used to use kisses apart from to my DP, mum and sister. I think some friends found me a bit stand-offish. Then I went through a tough time and became a lot more open about my feelings and now I generally use
kisses with female friends.

New DP is very slushy with his texts. I'm getting used it

DH gets a bit miffed if I text and don't put at least four kisses.

He's such a girl.

Oh god I often get small essays. Drives me nuts. He's getting better though.

But a lot of the time I get 'hey darling how's it going xxx' stuff so it's not all bad

Pretty much all like this:

Oh yeah home in 20 just getting petrol xx

Or

On way xx

Last 5 from DH: ok, in my pocket, no, I guess not, will you boil a few eggs for dinner.

In the mean time I sent him 17!

The "in my pocket" was in response to "do you know where my car/house keys are".

Kisses? Boak

Neither of us put kisses on texts, they're a bit cringey

We usually email, rather than text. No more words than he deems necessary (he is working, after all). Kisses sometimes. Usually if he's feeling a bit cheeky or feeling sorry for me.

A typical example:

Him: Get more eggs.
Me: OK
Him: Do you want anything from Morrisons?
Me: Just carrots.
Him: OK.

No kisses or romantic stuff.

Costa, I think that's a bit judgmental. If I'd put 'texts without kisses are a bit cold/sad' I don't think that would have gone down very well.

I think it's a matter of habit but I wouldn't dream of calling anyone else 'cringey' or anything else based on what goes on between them as a couple, it's what works for you.

To me, they're cringey - is that ok, thread police?

I can rarely fathom out the meaning of my DHs texts - autocorrect, no punctuation and throwing in the word 'anyway' results in several possible meanings. It really pisses me off... And I've had this for all 16 years we've been married...

I add hearts, kisses or smileys to my texts. He calls me Hon and adds kisses and smileys. He doesn't do hearts because I think he doesn't know how to do them.

Mono yes that too! really hard to understand what he is on about

We chat on viber or whatsapp a lot, so it's mainly just chatty stuff about day to day things - it's a running conversation so not much "xx" or "I love you" from either of us.
Just looked back through the last week, he's ended a message with xx 3 or 4 times when he leaving to do something, so basically saying bye at that point. I haven't at all.

Oh some of these 'cold' texts make me feel a bit sad!

My DH and I text quite a bit during the day. We always add 'kisses' (just one x) to the end of texts. My DH usually instigates with a "made it into work safely :)" text (he cycles a long distance into a busy city, so I worry!) and will ask how my day is going later on. Quite chatty texts if that makes sense and we always call each other honey / babe / darling / sexy.

We do message to say we love each other and to update on how we're managing on the journey home.

Hope it doesn't sound braggy or sickening. He is a big softie and I'm grateful as I am quite 'affectionate' in person/in communications so I appreciate him being the same.

Costa Sorry, I'm not a fan of thread policing. Just pointing out that everyone has managed to talk about their own relationships without criticising anyone else's.

Oh cross posts

for me I think

For context, I text him 17 times and he texted me 21 (we were having quite a long whinge to each other about moving house and the Student Loans Co so that is probably a bit of an extreme chatty day!)

Dh is now my carer so not apart really to text - unless we are in the same room and don't want the kids to hear what we're talking about (eldest can now spell so blurts it out lol).

Before when we both worked dh would use an x as full stops and loads of kisses at the end of texts. He would text all sorts depending on what he was doing at work - either on site and something quick or travelling to another site (as a passenger).