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It seems to me he is a wise man. I am addicted to my emails which are also visible on my phone so I generally respond to texts. The problem is they are quite intrusive. To curb this I am trying to block off a time each day when I do my emails and respond to texts so they don’t become controlling.
Your husband could also block off an hour a day when he deals with messages. Then it will become a habit and eventually it will become second nature to him and his friends will get their responses. I rather like messages because it given me thinking time – better than actually answering the phone. You will need to remind him until it becomes a habit.
I am still trying to form this habit for myself. But I think other people have high expectations regarding speed of response. These days people expect a response within virtually 5 minutes which is unreasonable. I always forget to turn my ringer back on if I mute it. I switched off my ringer on my office phone one day and completely forgot about it. Over the period of a week or more I had numerous messages from my boss asking me to call him. It sounded so lame to say I had my ringer off for that long…..especially when he did finally catch up with me I had sneaked off to walk my dogs!
If he won’t or can’t develop a daily habit then it might be easier to pretend to his friends that he is a bit of a Luddite and doesn’t get on with mobile phones or answer machines and just make a joke of it. If they are really friends they should accept him, warts and all…..but I know, it’s not that easy.
One thing I find useful is I have a Blackberry which flashes at me when a message comes in so if I forget to unmute it then it still alerts me.
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