Would you continue to be friends with someone who always responds late to your messages?

[ayana_0]

[avery58]

Yeah, if it's just normal texts. People have a life. Sometimes I reply a little late too. Not a lot, but it may be an hour or two. I'm not glued to my phone.

But if it's something important, like if I need them if I'm feeling down or something and they're not busy with anything but replying late then I'll just stop telling them anything important or trusting them. Friendship isn't only about being there in the good times. I'm there for my friends during difficult moments and I expect the same if someone cares for me.

[ShellyB]

If it’s really “always” over a period of months or years and not just a few times, I guess it depends if your friendship is good in other ways like if you see each other in person a lot and that part is good, if so maybe they just have that one blind spot. If your relationship with them is more about texting and they are v. slow to reply consistently for a long time, I would honestly say the friendship might not be that important to them. JMO good luck!

[NathanDavis]

"always late"

it depends on what that actually means... why and how do you consider something or someone, late...

people have their own lives too, and so am I... and I cannot always answer right away to everything and anything, and if I am "late" they will get the explanation and reason as to why it happened that way too

[ProbablyClueless]

Sure, as long as they put effort into it when they finally respond.

I don't text important things, typically. And I basically don't notice or care if it takes you a long time to respond because I have a huge amount of other stuff going on.

[ohsheeT]

Yeah I don't think there's any time limit on friendship people have lives and I don't know for me even on my phone I might not know that somebody called me or sent me a message for two or three days because I hate my phone LOL and you just leave the only way I find out is if I go to text them so I go to messages and then I see that they sent me something I mean I apologize. To them

But I mean to be honest if I'm dating somebody or something I would look everyday for messages probably that's probably why I don't look at my phone too often because I'm not dating anybody at moment

[Alwayreckles93]

Cur them off. I just broke off a childhood friendship. My ex friend Karen decided to be a bridezilla and plan a child free wedding unacceptable. We paid a lot of. money into this stupid trip just to see an angry Karen selfish narcissistic couple get married. Not only that the bride yelled at my two year old called him a demon una unacceptable! The bride and her douchie husband are the demons here not my little boy.

[thatshydork]

Sure. Them texting back late is not a testament to their character at all. It just means that they’re likely not looking at or on their phone or they’re not in the mood for socializing. Either way is fine.

[TsundereMatrix]

I have friends that do this and I just keep texting them until they reply but I only do that if I know it’s not annoying for them so my answer is yes but if they are close enough to understand why I keep texting them all the time.

[Account]

Yes because that can also be me. It would be hypocritical if I didn't.

[RebelinSteel]

Yeah, I suck at messaging n replying to messages / WhatsApp. Which reminds me I have some to reply to.

[Account]

@RebelinSteel it can be draining as fuck, also I tend to forget after a few moments

[RebelinSteel]

@Account yeah I have the attention span of a butterfly at times … pretty flowers

[Account]

@RebelinSteel I swear, I literally forget I exist sometimes

[RebelinSteel]

@Account who?

[Account]

I forgot 🤷🏻‍♀️. @RebelinSteel

[RebelinSteel]

@Account damn, more pretty flowers

[Account]

🤣🤣

[RebelinSteel]

@Account I may have been drinking or am drinking, damn can’t even remember if I’m drinking

[Account]

If you cut your hand right now or any other spot, there wouldn't be blood coming out of it but pure alcohol. You are not drinking alcohol atm, but alcohol is drinking you instead

[RebelinSteel]

@Account I actually cut my leg yesterday, tried to jump over a wall at 4am 🤣

[Account]

Well did you do it? Also... what kind of wall was that? Hopefully you were not trespassing property 🤣

Are you the epitome of: "I get drunk to drown my sorrows/problems, but those motherfuckers learned how to swim" (?)

[RebelinSteel]

@Account well I think it was because I want to walk along it, it was like 2 ft high, which was 1 ft more than I could manage. Nah this is drinking because I’m being given it, I’m actually happy. I go running for sorrows n problems

[Account]

Last time I was that drunk, I was at my friend's place and I tried to persuade my friend to either climb the mountain on foot at 3 am - (it would take many hours to even go there) or to go to a specific town on foot. I don't even remember why. Then I got bummed that she was of sound mind and ended up falling asleep (either on her floor or inside her bathtub I don't remember)

@RebelinSteel

[RebelinSteel]

@Account lmao
Oh and I hate sleeping in bathtubs,
We did have some random and bizarre walk around some Liverpool streets looking for a friends house, they could not remember house number but the door was red - 1 hour later and stopped by police twice, we gave up.

[Account]

Yeah you wake up so goddamn sore from the lack of space and the material, I remember that once I fell asleep on her floor and another time on her bathtub but I forget which time is which.
Hahaha I can imagine you checking all the goddamn red doors around. The drunk state of mind is so peculiar 🤣
Admittedly I haven't been drunk many times I only do so around people I fully trust, also I have never gotten angry while drunk, I either get hyper full of energy or sad as fuck or I alternate

@RebelinSteel

[RebelinSteel]

@Account I tend to be bit happy n crazy, I can do the full on depressed but not so much. I don’t think I’ve slept much since Friday.

[Account]

@RebelinSteel
Like Bon Jovi says "Gonna live while I'm alive, I will sleep when I'm dead" .
I am partially joking, get some rest, bro and don't forget to have some water

[RebelinSteel]

@Account I’m waiting for food, someone went out for pizza

[Viking_Girl19]

A person may have various reasons for late responses. If it's for a month, then it's just a difficult period in her life. But if it is all the time, then it is banal disrespect.

[PreferNot2Say]

Jesus! Seriously? How self centered are you, really?

[ayana_0]

it's just a question lol

[PreferNot2Say]

If you say so.

[Dinklex3]

Oh. I am that friend, lol. They know to call me if it’s important 🤷🏾‍♀️

[SugarSugarplum]

Yeah. Of course. I'd be more worried about a friend who always responds immediately.

[RubyFrench]

Yes i would. Thats a silly reason to not be friends with somebody.

[Nikki1989]

None of my friends waste their time on text messages.

We actually talk to each other.

[coxoabean]

What if you need to tell them something and they aren't around for you to tell them in person?

[Aubrey97]

Of course. People have a life and are busy and don't all stare at their phones 24/7.

[LiamJHayden]

I am not big on texting. I get it if someone is at work and sneaking in a quick message, but otherwise I prefer to hear the other person's voice.

[12karen]

Yes. sometimes I initiate the text but then get something to do and I respond late, and I totally understand if they're late as well.

[SuchSightsToShowYou]

What do you mean by "late"?

Do they not response immediately, or do they not respond for days or weeks?

Maybe this person is just busy.

[nawtee_me]

That is why I call friends to hear their voice and let them hear mind for reassurance that everything is okay.

[Anonymous]

Everyone responds late to everyone's messages.

[art84]

Probably not every has time to respond right away to text.

[Juxtapose]

Yep. I have people that sometimes wait weeks to respond to me.

[Anonymous]

Depends what you mean b, "friends". You get the ranking in my life that I get in yours.

[Jackson2005]

Literally every single one of my friends respond late so yeah

[Daphne96]

Depends they could be at work. Or don’t have an answer maybe take time to think it over.

[Kingofkings1992]

Yes, when you get to be an adult , people have shit they got going on

[Kelley1]

No one always does anything.

[WhitneySnow]

How late? And why?

[TheSpaceGnome]

what counts as late?

[anon1903]

Are they at least interesting?

[bowenw]

It depends on who and the reason.

[Myspacepr1ncess]

Maintain being brethren? Depends.

[Ash_williams01234]

i find it annoying but yeah ofc

[EnjoytheDay777]

It depends on how late.

[Luckycharms12]

They are getting back to you have busy life

[LazerMan]

it may take you freind time to write ansa

[power_wolf]

it's very annoying

[TheCaller]

Of course