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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[luvenditti.livejournal.com]

I understand. Trust me. I've been the one writing emails that I knew would either save the universe or shred it. And that gnawing feeling of. They should have read it by now. They should have been thinking about all of this and have come to conclusions of their own, and that as soon as they get this (any second now) they will respond immediately. As in now. Now? Now. Yet? Okay I'll give them ten minutes. Maybe it didn't send right. Should I rewrite it in case it didn't go through? Now? ....

... there's no answer sugar. You have to make the sail or bail decision yourself.