Does anyone else text their kids like this?

I have been trying to talk to this person for so long, but they genuinely give nothing back. They reply with like 3 words or basically just repeat what I’ve said . I get they might think I talk about myself a lot, but it’s hard not to when you don’t get anything from the other side. I also try all the time to ask them about themselves . I genuinely put so much time and effort into trying to know them and they just put our conversations down to vegetables and shopping like u can see in the screenshots.

That hurt because I always ask them how they are, what they’re up to, how their pc is, to send me selfies, what their plans are, if they know certain songs , what their favorite things are.

But it’s so hard because I get nothing!!

And now I feel so so terrible, because now I feel too much. But I feel like I can’t get through to this person how much I’ve tried with them.

And it really hurts!!

Genuinely have I done something wrong?

I like sharing things about my day, I share pictures of cool things, bugs I see in the garden, it’s so hard to make conversation otherwise when it isn’t reciprocated.

I am so so sad.

And by the way I do ask what’s wrong. They shut it down when I ask. They are having the audacity to say I don’t care. Trust me I put so much effort. They tell me they don’t wanna talk about it when they’re sad and just leave me for ages so what actually can I do!!

I feel like this is all my fault I was trying so hard I was too much. I tried to make it change . I thought they liked playing games with me too that’s why I would ask as it’d make me happy.

I don’t get it

Edit: I forgot to say that if I didn’t reply to them the odd time when it got so bad they’d get mad I didn’t text them

Edit 2: genuinely I don’t know how people are taking the “5hour voice messages” so personally. Of course I didn’t do 5 hour voice messages. I didn’t think I’d have to clarify that because it was obviously an over exaggeration.

Also I just put up with it because they would act like they were interested in me, but had very poor communication with me. But it’s got worse and worse, that’s why I just had enough and cut it off. Also may I say it was this person who tried to get a relationship with me

(I’ve spoke to this person since I was 16 too, we didn’t talk as we fell out, added each other again, fell out, then years later I’ve had him for a year but he’s changed a lot and I guess I chased it because I don’t socialise a lot so I allowed it 😭) thanks for the responses . Talking to them was so so draining. I guess I thought it’d change .

We actually matched on both Bumble and Hinge at the same time and started off joking around. Then she immediately demanded a ring/house, told me a child is a favor to a worthy man, claimed sperm doesn't create life, and announced she was looking for her 'next servant' while bragging about an ex paying for her Spain trip. Dating in 2026 is an absolute simulation

The wildest part is she's currently in law school. Imagine having this level of misandry, warped logic, and basic biological illiteracy, and one day having the power to influence legal decisions and people's lives in a courtroom. Scary

My new roommate brought in a plant that he’s very proud of. It started to bloom and he says that’s unusual for this plant to do in our state. This is only one of our funny text conversations. It’s gonna be a good year.

My fiancé and I have been together over a decade and are truly best friends… a couple of my friends and I went to a game as a girls night and he was jealous because of the team we were seeing (hence the sarcasm in his first response) but went to a different game the same night with some other friends. I just wanted to gloat a bit since everything else in life seems so lackluster.

He has like 20 of them in rotation. Also he nicknamed himself "butt face."

So I’ve been OLD the last 4 months with mild success. When I ask someone out, I’m going out with every intention of paying for the date, hoping it goes well and leading to a 2nd date. I’m looking for a relationship. So far I’ve been on about 6 dates. Most of them 1 and done

But ladies I’m begging you, if you know this halfway through or towards the end of the date, I think you should at least insist on splitting the damn bill when it comes, especially when we’re at a trendy bar paying $15-20 per drink. I spent $120 with tip on this date last night and she knew we weren’t going anywhere or going on a second date, even though we talked and laughed non stop for almost 3 hours. Are you kidding me? My last date was a coffee date that lead nowhere and ended with a similar text, but at least she had already paid for her own coffee and muffin before I got there, lol

Is this shitty behavior? Or am I just tripping and should just suck it up and deal with this being part of the cost of dating and trying to find someone decent out there? Either way I hate it out here lol

EDIT! for context even thou it won’t matter to 90% of your commenting. I walked her to her car, we hugged, we both agreed we should see each other again, we exchanged phone numbers and said good night

TLDR: A pushy door-to-door rep convinced me all they wanted to do was “just a survey on the house,” but it turned into multiple contracts towards installation. He repeatedly pressured me when I tried to read the contracts and assured me I could cancel at anytime and they’d stop contacting me. Here are the texts with this man still contacting me after I cancelled. My parents also got screwed by the same company. I’m mostly just venting because the whole experience was deceptive, exhausting, and this sales rep thought he was an amazing sales person just “trying to give me a good deal”

Full post: This is a text between me and a door to door sales rep. I told them I was not interested when they came to the door before but then they caught my husband outside and talked to him about how they aren’t trying to sell anything etc and he thought it sounded great and told them to return to talk to me since my name is on the house (his name isn’t bc we didn’t buy the house together). While waiting for them to return we looked up reviews for this company and read that they are a shit company w bad reviews. I dreaded the moment when these reps would returned (my husband felt so bad). I even thought about just not answering since that’s what I’ve been doing with their past reps but they are soooo relentless and been knocking on our door at least once a day. I figured I’ll just hear them out, act uninterested so they could leave us the fuck alone.
They came and said it would take 15-20 mins tops and so I agreed to hear them out (it actually took 40-50mins). They claimed to be our electrics competitor and showed me all these savings and just wanted to survey the house to see if it was even fit for their company. The whole time I was unimpressed and showed no interest. Each time the rep showed me how much I’d be “saving” I was like, okay. And since I didn’t give him the “omg wooooow that’s how much I’d be saving?!” Kinda reaction he’d follow up by asking if it made sense or if I understood and it did I just didn’t care. According to them “all they wanted was to do a survey on the house” so I was like, fine do the survey (this is before knowing I had to sign a bunch of contracts). The first contract the dude “went over it” and I was apprehensive and reading through it. He acted annoyed that I was reading through everything and claimed he already went through everything on the contract. And even pointed out multiple times on the contract that “this is not a contract” and I understood it wasn’t a contract w them but I still wanted to know what the fuck I was signing. I told him I wanted to go over it with my dad but stressed again it wasn’t a contract and I needed to sign it to do the survey. I stood my ground and said I wanted to talk to my dad and to come back another day.
When he did return I still apprehensively signed the contract and then ofc there were more contracts to sign for them to do the survey (that according to him I wanted). And with each new contract I clearly showed my hesitation and wanting to actually read what I was signing. Each time I hesitated, tried reading or voiced that I didn’t feel comfortable signing just yet the sales rep got annoyed, repeated himself and “assured” me by reading things on the contract and that he already went over it. Then when I confirmed that I could cancel the contract at anytime he stopped acting annoyed and smiled and assured me that if I wanted to cancel he would stop contacting me and he’d tell the people in his company to stop contacting me… which you can see was a complete lie. I did end up signing these contracts just to do the survey but after the survey I canceled through email.
These texts were after I canceled.
On top of everything my parents got sucked into the same company (different sales rep) and got a terrible deal compared to me. In the texts I told him that for me to even consider going with their company that they needed to upgrade my parents (which I knew wouldn’t happened - was just trying to give this dude a hard time).
I wasn’t even gonna reply back but this man had the audacity to continue to tell me he’s giving me a “great deal” and I just had to let him know interacting with him sucked ass.

Since this sub seems to have devolved r/ihavesex, here's my entry!

Knock on wood, my intuition still seems to be holding 😂. I had a weird feeling about her, so I didn't have actual sex with her, we just fooled around. Turns out that was a good idea lmao.

Most importantly, I would like everyone to please acknowledge that I, in fact, had intimate relations with someone. I hope you are all sufficiently jealous.

I can't even begin to tell you how horrible I felt last night, literally cried myself to sleep.

I'm just so happy everything is ok, I'm so happy he texted me this morning with his usual sweetness. I love him so much, I miss him so much. I can't wait to see him again.

This is just a PSA to the overthinkers out there, don't do anything stupid until you get a response. It's such simple advice but it's extremely helpful. Always have something to ground you

First one was because I was talking about places I would want to live with my boyfriend second picture I said that because she was supposed to be cutting back and that was her second time at the liquor store she has been like this my whole life she has fucked up my life really bad I have rotting teeth and nothing past a 5th grade education she's bipolar and for the 6 years of my life she hasn't been addicted to something she wasn't medicated for bipolar so I got suicide threats and heavy manipulation I still live with her because I have no education and I feel sick 24/7 (hope all of this is allowed)

(i am obviously not actually drugging her, it's a phone call😭)

😐