A connection can be built just by text messaging alone.

This doesn’t mean that this is a healthy way to build a connection.

Text messaging sets the imagination ablaze.

As exciting as this sounds, it’s fraught with landmines.

The imagination creates what makes you feel good.

When you receive a text message from the person in relation to a topic, your imagination has a habit of running wild with it.

You don’t have the advantage of hearing the person’s voice nor seeing them in person, so your imagination draws it’s own conclusions about what the person meant.

It’s not just with a phrase or a sentence the person sends, it’s with images and symbols too.

A simple emoji sign sends your imagination on overdrive, as your mind makes you believe what you want to believe.

Text messages leave too much room for interpretation, whether it is in the words, images or symbols used.

This is why text messaging as the only means of talking to someone of romantic interest is fraught with landmines.

Misinterpretation of a text is very likely, which leaves you in an unenviable state where your imagination is your worst enemy in disguise.

As good as it makes you feel when you interpret a text message, your internal desires influences your imagination into reading too much into said text message.

The inevitable happens.

Feelings develop too prematurely.

When you get ahead of someone emotionally, communicating with the person takes on a new meaning of its own.

There is a sensitivity that arises to anything you receive from them.

A joke is misinterpreted as an insult.

A compliment is misinterpreted as a sign the person is in love with you.

Once feelings are involved, you are at a heightened level of awareness, which hampers communication.

You are too far ahead of this person emotionally and it’s only a matter of time before they sense it.

Fearing misinterpretation, the person’s text messages become drier and less frequent in number.

Text messages alone can build a connection, heavily influenced by an imagination that is misinterpreting and filling in the gaps.

This is why relying on text messaging alone when you have a romantic interest in someone is extremely ill-advised.

You don’t want your imagination influencing you, as this could ruin any romantic potential you had with this person.

A good balance of text messaging, video chatting, talking on the phone and meeting up on dates is the right approach.

Don’t get stuck in a situation where all you two ever do is text each other.

Encourage the person to talk to you on the phone, video chat with you and meet up in person.

A person who isn’t interested in doing anything else besides text messaging is not worth your time.

Don’t get lulled into text messaging alone, running the risk of building a connection with a person primarily based on misinterpretation, or filling in the gaps with your imagination.

No one that has a healthy interest in you is going to be satisfied with text messaging alone.

Surely, they want to hear your voice, see your face and touch you.

This is a major part of building an organic, romantic connection with someone.

A person who doesn’t care for this is not interested in you.