Hi, I'm Matthew Hussey, welcome to Love Life. It's a privilege to be able to offer you

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Let's talk for a moment about the in-between phases in dating. In other words, when you're

going on dates with someone, how does that communication look between the dates? Many

people obviously resort to texting. I think that's what we're used to these days is we're

used to texting each other relentlessly until we see each other again. The problem with

that is texting doesn't really create real connection. It can create banter, it can allow

us to flirt a little bit, allow us to make each other laugh, but it doesn't create nearly

the same connection as being in person or being on the phone. Now, we don't call each

other enough these days. We resort to texting because it's easy. And then of course, when

we get tired of texting, we want to see each other and we go to the other end of the

spectrum in order to see each other, then we stop seeing each other. We come off the

date and we go back to texting. I want to argue for the phone call right now and how you

should do it. I am a big proponent of the three-minute phone call. Why is that? Well, look,

here's how it looks. You call someone up and you're going about your business and you say

to them, hey, how's it going? And they say, hey, you go, I just wanted to give you a quick

call and see what you're up to. I'm actually, and you could say whatever you're doing. I'm

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