Maybe I'm just too impatient

[mousme]

Okay, let's postulate for a moment. One sends an email that one has spent days thinking about and composing in one's head and worrying about.

How long after sending this email should one wait before giving up on the idea of ever getting an answer?

Let's add to this that the recipient of the email, in theory, checks his email at least once a day, and usually a lot more often than that.

The longer this drags out, the more I'm tempted to throw in the towel. Not that I have intimacy issues and nearly always end up with people who can't communicate properly. No. Not at all. :P

Clearly, instant gratification takes too long for me.

*sigh*

People are complicated.

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[whiskeygirl8.livejournal.com]

If I send a fairly new person in my life an email and don't get an answer after a few days, then I send another and a week after that I give up.

But, then, I'm HORRIBLY impatient and VERY pessimistic and inclined to believe that people who don't answer just don't want to talk to me.

Even though I'm horrible at answering emails in a timely manner.

But, if it is something like what you described, I always try to get to it quickly. I learned my lesson on that one. Even if I don't know what to say in answer, I should at least say, "Hey, I got your email and I will answer soon."