Texting Your Way into a Solid Relationship

Sending short message services, also known as text messaging, has spread all over the world like a virus. It has revolutionized our communication with our colleagues, friends, family and loved ones.

Now, instead of calling someone to ask how she is, you just simply send a text message asking her "how are you?" Sending a text message to your loved one is considered a better alternative to calling them on the phone especially if you know they are busy, but you would still want to drop them a sweet reassuring message or greeting. Besides, more often than not, those sweet nothings can make a person smile knowing that somebody cares and thinks of them. A couple on a long distance relationship can send each other love messages all day without burning phone lines. Many people, who cannot express themselves verbally, turn to text messaging to show how they feel towards another person.

In a lot of instances, it has been the primary means of communication between two people moving towards a romantic relationship. Yes, you may already know some people who flirted, setup dates, fell in love and even broke up through text messaging.

But why do people prefer text messaging over other means of communication? For one, text messaging is quicker and more accessible. You can sit on a class and can quickly send a sweet text message to your girlfriend. Also, learning text messaging is very easy. Almost anybody can text. Apprehensive people can be more brazen and flirt smoothly through text message. Text messaging is more relaxed and casual. It's a lot easier to become emotionally honest over text than in person. Can you imagine yourself telling someone "You are in my mind" over the phone? You might squirm first before belching those words out.

While you can arrange dates and meet-ups through texting, text messaging opens the door to face-to-face, and more personal communication, because it is still hard to get any real and emotion-filled interaction through text. Yup, traditional old school human interaction is still the key to a deeper level, more serious relationship. But that does not mean text messaging can help get you and your partner get there.

In the fast-food world, the life we live is now full of short cuts. So many things have been trimmed to half of its original form. Because time is of the essence, we streamline processes and make things a lot easier. This is true in text messaging as well.

In email and even text messaging, LOL, BRB, IMHO, LMAO and g8 make sense. If you receive a message asking "wer R U", U already know what to reply. It's a whole new language! It can be annoying for some people but the text lingo sounds ordinary for the many. Short cuts are used because the message can be sent quicker. The important thing is that you sent the message across and that the recipient understood it.

Text messaging can help spark a new relationship and sustain an existing one, if you just push the right buttons.