My crush took 1 week to reply. should I even bother replying him back?

[Anonymous]

My crush has been texting with me for months now and he always continues the convo on by asking questions and so I did the same. Sometimes he would reply quickly then the latest was like 2 days. However this time he left me on seen for a week to reply!!! When he replied he never apologised for replying this late. I just feel like it’s so disrespectful in general. Honestly it’s such a big turn off. Should I be petty and just not reply to him ever? Or do you think I should reply? Cause I don’t want to make it too obvious that it got to me by removing him off my close friends and everything but o really don’t want to continue talking with him anymore. It’s pissing me off. What do you guys think? Should I just ghost him forever at this point? Or is that too childish of me?

[noemiii]

I had a friend do this to me. We were having a conversation and she didn’t reply for 7 days after, even posted and deleted because she didn’t respond.
Whether it’s a friend or a crush, it is a blatant sign someone doesn’t want to talk to you. If I did that to someone I 100% don’t like you. It’s better to take the hint and move on.

[Asker]

Yeah I understand but bro still keeps trying to continue the convo. If you don’t want to talk stop starting convos from replying to my stories and stop continuing the convo by asking questions.

[noemiii]

Hun, he’s bored and trying to keep you around. It’s that simple. If he doesn’t care about replying 7 days after, what makes you think he would care about anything else having to do with starting convos? He thinks you’re okay with it so the obvious answer is for you to ghost him. Literally a no brainer.

[MementoMori777]

Well he's clearly only replying to you when he's either bored or replied to everyone, or no one is replying to him, leaving you last type of thing.

[Asker]

How’d u respond to that? Just don’t reply to them?

[MementoMori777]

That all depends if you want to reply to them, you shouldn't expect change in behavior tho

[mommymommymommy]

While it's ok to reply within a week, you'd have to ask yourself, why, is he really that busy or whatever that he couldn't get back to you quicker. Do you know what sort of things he does

[Asker]

Nah I’m 💯 sure he can’t be that busy. He has been flicking through my stories so obviously he’s on ig going through everyone’s story. Which makes me think he’s rather rude right?

[mommymommymommy]

The girl i like is pretty busy, i sent her a message two days ago, she literally just got back to it