Key points

Texting back often feels harder than it should—especially for people who care deeply.

Nearly 1 in 3 people feel daily stress about messaging; 1 in 6 ignore texts due to overload.

Emotional labor, burnout, and guilt make even a simple reply feel emotionally expensive.

A late reply doesn't mean lost connection—it might just mean a friend is doing their best.

Texting back can sometimes feel like a task too big to tackle, even when it comes to friends we value and conversations we genuinely want to have. As it turns out, not texting back is a relatively commonplace phenomenon: According to the World Economic Forum, 31 percent of people experience daily stress related to texting. Nearly 1 in 5 struggle to keep up with replies, and almost 1 in 6 admit to ignoring all messages b

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