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Love Life with Matthew Hussey

Stop the Negative Text-Tone Spiral!

Love Life with Matthew Hussey

Matthew Hussey

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.82.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2016

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

We’ve all been there. You send a fairly benign text, and the other person texts you back something like “Hmmm….OK.” What does THAT mean? It seems like they misread your tone. Are they annoyed with you now? Mad, even? So you text back, “What’s up with you?” And then they text back, “What’s up with YOU???????” Before you know it, you’re in a Negative Text-Tone Spiral. Well, I’ve got the simple solution to break this frustrating cycle, and it’s going to save you HOURS of time and emotional anguish. So put down your phone and listen to this episode now…

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0:00.0

Hello everybody, this is Matthew Hussie with Love Life. I have an incredible show for you today,

0:06.0

but I want to make sure you listen right to the end because I'm going to give you a special gift.

0:11.0

A full proof way to become the most intriguing woman in any man's life and you're not going to want to miss it.

0:20.0

I'm bringing you a really important subject today and that is text arguments.

0:26.0

Text arguments seem to be a more and more common feature of our society, both between friends, between couples,

0:32.0

and anyone else you care about in your life. In fact, the worst text arguments are of course with the people you care about most

0:38.0

and it becomes very dangerous. Here's why. Text arguments usually result of someone misreading something along the way.

0:48.0

You say something and you meant it to have 30% anger, but they read it with 60% anger.

0:55.0

All of a sudden they send back something which now is irritable or irritated and it becomes something that irritates you.

1:03.0

You now respond in an even more heightened way and all of a sudden you're in this texting spiral which gets worse and worse and worse.

1:10.0

Now I want to talk about how to break that cycle and it's real simple. It's going to involve going back in time a little bit.

1:16.0

The moment you feel that there is some sort of disconnect by text called a person.

1:23.0

If someone says you're a message where you say something and they go, hmm, okay.

1:30.0

And you think, what does that mean? What did they put the, hmm, in front of the, okay.

1:35.0

What does that mean? Are they being sarcastic? Are they saying that they're suspicious of something? Are they saying that they don't like something?

1:41.0

I said, what are they saying? So now you get angry by your text like, well, what's that supposed to mean?

1:46.0

And then they feel that anger in your voice and then they now respond in a big way.

1:50.0

Instead, dial the person's number and say, I just wanted to make sure everything's okay.

1:56.0

I feel like I didn't know if you were being cold in that text or not.

2:00.0

I just wanted to call you and see if everything's okay.

2:03.0

And as soon as you do that and you say, I want to hear if everything's okay, of course they'll either tell you, oh no it's fine.

2:08.0

I'm just in the middle of things and I didn't mean to say it like that.

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