For many, texting is a habitual form of communication.

Think about how often you call someone and talk to them on the phone.

Compare these instances with how often you text people.

There is no comparison.

You spend much more time texting your friends, family, coworkers, etc., than talking to them on the phone.

His experience is the same.

He spends more time texting his friends, family, coworkers, etc., than talking to them on the phone.

Even though he told you that he would call after he asked for your number, he didn’t mean it literally.

What he meant was that he would contact you.

The word “call” was broad and figurative in its definition in that instance.

He meant he would get in touch with you, but not necessarily through literally calling you on the phone.

He is so used to using “call” as a euphemism for contacting someone; it’s second nature to him to use it as his way of indicating his intent to contact you.

Unfortunately, you took what he said too literally.

That’s understandable, given how excited you are about this guy.

Nevertheless, he didn’t mean that he would literally call.

He meant he would contact you.

Steer clear of making too much of the fact he texted you instead.

Although you are disappointed and wanted to hear his sultry voice, it doesn’t mean a phone call will never happen.

Oftentimes, when it is this early, a guy feels far more confident communicating with a girl he barely knows by text than through a phone call.

Texting is a medium he is used to.

It gives him the leeway to take a breath before sending a text.

This means he gets to construct meaningful text messages that facilitate good conversation.

Texting is safe.

Unlike a phone call, he doesn’t have to be so spontaneous.

He doesn’t have to worry about talking to you on the phone with immediate witty banter.

Rather, by texting the girl instead, he has the ability to think through his responses.

This is safer for him.

He doesn’t have the kind of immediate pressure that comes with a phone call.

Ergo, he is playing it safe by sticking with a medium of communication he is comfortable with, especially when he has only recently met a girl.

You are someone new.

He is yet to determine what works for you in terms of topics of conversation, wit, humor, sarcasm, etc.

Text messages are a safe route in determining all of this.

By text messaging instead, he has the time to assess your replies so as to determine what excites you.

If you are enthusiastically responding to his text messages, you are making him progressively comfortable with communicating with you, as he learns what it is you love to talk about.

As you share fun text message threads that grow longer and longer with time, his curiosity to hear your real voice grows.

This is when he makes his first phone call.

If it goes well, he will make more phone calls to you in the future.

Eventually, there is a better balance between how often he texts you and how often he calls you.