When it has been a few hours, neither being left on delivered or on read is worse than the other.

Neither one is an indication that a guy has lost interest in you.

Sometimes, guys aren’t ready to respond at that moment.

They are busy doing something else.

They got distracted.

They want to wait to gather their thoughts so as to give you a better reply than sending you a quick emoji or a short phrase.

Being left on delivered or on read isn’t always a bad thing.

It’s just that when you get so excited about someone you like and they don’t respond to a message as quickly as you were hoping for, it feels like the person has lost interest in you.

That isn’t the case in every circumstance.

You do yourself a disservice when you are too overzealous in the early stages of courting someone.

It’s a grave mistake to permit your thoughts and feelings to get ahead of you.

When you do this, you are several steps ahead of the other person.

This is what leads to making a big deal out of something that didn’t warrant it.

That’s what you could be doing now.

Making a big deal out of being left on delivered or on read, when you have been talking to this person for a short while.

Don’t get ahead of yourself.

You don’t know this guy well enough to make an assumption that being left on delivered or on read is an indication that he has lost interest in you.

Not all guys move at the same pace when they are courting a girl.

Even though you are used to guys responding to you much quicker in your dating history, that doesn’t mean that every guy is like this.

Expecting the same experience you have had in the past from men who were interested in you is a massive blunder.

Again, it leads to making something out to be more than what it is.

Doing this ruins a courtship that was moving in the right direction.

Is that what you want?

Hopefully, it isn’t.

Take your mind away from the obsession of waiting to hear from him.

A woman who is occupied in other areas of her life with a variety of hobbies and interests is actually insanely attractive to men.

A man who knows that a woman has a life filled with interests, is intrigued.

A man intrigued is a man who wants to court a woman.

Was this man intrigued by you?

Did he see a life filled with interests?

Be patient.

Men aren’t known for being good texters.

That being said, you shouldn’t relegate your conversations with him to texting alone.

This is a very big trap that many people in the early stages of courtship fall into.

Texting is casual.

It lacks immediacy or urgency.

Many guys have a casual approach to texting, which causes them to take longer to respond to messages.

Create a stronger sense of immediacy and urgency by mixing it up.

In the future, instead of texting him, call him on the phone or do a video chat.

Guys are known to be much better communicators when they are communicating with a girl through a variety of mediums, especially through video.

For now, don’t panic.

Do not double text him, so as not to look desperate.

Give him a chance to respond to your text message, and in the meantime, get out there and live an interesting life.