My guy friend is having serious girl trouble. His lady friend doesn’t want to have…text.
“It makes me feel needy,” he moans, “and I’m not a needy person. It’s just that she doesn’t initiate texting.”
Laugh all you want, but this is a real problem. He complains of feeling inadequate, undesirable, unimportant, marginalized.
“I feel like she has the power because she knows that if she doesn’t text me, I’ll text her.”
This article appears in Nov 18-24, 2009.