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Figured out a trick for the 2am text regret spiral: schedule it for 7am instead of sending
I was in bed in Denver at 1:47am after a bad date and typed out this whole paragraph to her, but instead of hitting send I set it as a scheduled text for 7am so I'd have to look at it again in daylight. Woke up, read it, deleted it immediately, and now I do this with every angry or sad text. Has anyone else tried delaying sends like this or do you just raw dog the send button?
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wendy_lee4819d ago
The "schedule it for 7am instead of sending" thing is genius and I wish I had known this years ago. I used to write out these long drunk texts to my ex and just blast them into the void at 2am, then wake up feeling like I got hit by a truck when I read what I said. Now I type it in my notes app and make myself sit on it until morning, and about 90% of the time I read it back and go what was I even on about. The sad part is the messages that survive the night are usually the ones I actually mean, so the delay kind of works as a filter. Raw dogging the send button has cost me way too much.
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