When two people are excited about each other, it is easy to get carried away with the excitement.

This is where you are texting him far more often than you should be.

You are excited about him and want to text him often so as to get that rush of excitement by having him text you back.

This is where you get lost in the desire to keep feeling this good.

It is a sentiment as potent as an addicting drug.

Every time you have a good text message conversation with him, you are that much more excited about the next text message conversation you have with him.

As a result, you don’t wait for him to reciprocate in initiating the next text message, you are the one who initiates.

His energetic response leads to yet another exhilarating text message conversation.

Once it’s over, you can’t wait for the next text message conversation and become that much more emboldened in continuing to initiate them.

This behavior persists for a little while, until one day you initiate a text message to him and he doesn’t reply as quickly as he did the day before.

Rather, he sends you a reply a few hours later.

That unsettles you, but you decide to let it go as you are excited that he finally replied.

After all, you had been waiting on it for hours.

Sadly, this is just the beginning of the end.

Every new text message you initiate to him in consequent days and weeks, leads to longer delays in how quickly he replies to them.

It goes from hours to days to get a reply from him.

Inevitably, he doesn’t reply at all.

He goes completely silent.

Unfortunately, you were too overzealous in initiating text messages to him, misreading his earlier quick responses as a sign that he wanted you to keep initiating text messages to him.

He grew weary of all the text messages you were initiating, which led him to take longer to reply and eventually stop replying altogether.

When you are interested in a man, and it is early, let him initiate more texts to you than you do to him.

It’s important that a man leads in this early stage of courtship.

When he leads, he is compelled to keep pursuing you.

His interest in you persists.

When you are the one who is initiating most of the texts, you take away the leadership role from him.

It divests him from controlling the tone and pace of the courtship.

Once this happens, he loses his drive and motivation to keep getting to know you.

This is why you must keep your excitement about him under control and let him lead.

For every two text messages he initiates to you, you can initiate one.

Maintain this regimented pace in the early stages.

This allows him to continue pursuing you, keeping him invested in the courtship, as opposed to being overwhelmed.

As long as he is consistently text messaging you during the course of the week, such a pace normally means that you are initiating one or two text messages to him a week.

This is how you keep him engaged, knowing that you are reciprocating interest without overdoing it.