Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There are some emotionally damaged people posting in thread. OP, your instinct is right. This is not how someone who is into you should be behaving, frankly. Other people will tell you otherwise, but you are looking for relationship material, not just some random to date.
+1. Yes, I absolutely expect the person I'm in a relationship with to contact me daily.
Yup, I'm happily married with a child and I work long hours. My husband and I still are in regular touch throughout the day. We can't easily talk on the phone because of work, but we send each other funny articles via e-mail, we chat, we text. During our first year together, we were in even more frequent touch. We were calling each other constantly. When you are in love, you are excited and crave each other's company. Something happens -- funny, sad, bizarre, gross -- and the first person you want to share it with is your significant other. A coworker says something annoying and you shoot your significant other a text like "that idiot is at it again." You come up with nicknames for other people and have ongoing story lines about your boss, coworkers, family, friends. I don't know who some of the people in this thread are hanging out with, but I would wager that happily married people and people in happy relationships leading to marriage are closer to my dynamic than to a dynamic in which they don't call for days.