# She's never the one to initiate text.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-never-the-one-to-initiate-text/712341>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 10, 2015, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-never-the-one-to-initiate-text/712341 "2015-02-10T23:13:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![InsomniaMama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ad7895/32.png) [@InsomniaMama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InsomniaMama)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-never-the-one-to-initiate-text/712341/41 "2015-02-19T18:48:57Z")

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Windings!? OMG, freak! That’s just not normal.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-never-the-one-to-initiate-text/712341/42 "2015-02-19T19:08:29Z")

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> [@InsomniaMama](#):
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> Windings!? OMG, freak! That’s just not normal.

Oh, you’re probably one of those goody goodies who texts once a month with the lights off, and spells all the words correctly.

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**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-never-the-one-to-initiate-text/712341/43 "2015-02-19T19:50:19Z")

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I wish she would send me [this](http://emojipedia.org/fire/). Yeah, that would be some real hot mono-key text…

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**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-never-the-one-to-initiate-text/712341/44 "2015-02-19T20:54:11Z")

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> [@pool](#):
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> Maybe if you experiment with a group texting situation that will bring her around and make her more hyper-textual.

Be careful, though, you do not want to turn her into a gURL.

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**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-never-the-one-to-initiate-text/712341/45 "2015-02-19T22:44:10Z")

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> [@pool](#):
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> Maybe if you experiment with a group texting situation that will bring her around and make her more hyper-textual.

Don’t take this advice, OP–it’s a terrible idea. She clearly has textual hangups, so trying to push her into group text is just going to scare her off.

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