Experts weigh in on how to navigate the anxiety that comes with messaging romantic interests — or anyone.
Last month, I got really into binge watching the first few seasons of Sex and the City.
But texting back and forth, while potentially exhilarating, can also be exhausting and wrought with anxiety. Read on to learn why texting your romantic interest can be so stressful and ways you can make it more manageable.. As a result, our brains developed extremely effective processes to interpret facial expressions, body movements and tone of voice. These clues allow you to correctly interpret someone’s words in context.
Leora Trub, a professor of psychology at Pace University in New York, explains how this could also enable the projection of fears. “The less information available to you, the more you will project your own internal world onto that stimulus,” she says. “So if you have some anxiety about rejection in a particular relationship, you'll be more likely to interpret communication in ways that align with your fears.
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