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By: Christine Hammond, LMHC Miscommunication happens often enough face to face. But it happens far more frequently over text messages. Alice was texting back and forth with her boyfriend when suddenly he went silent after a simple question. In the middle of a meeting, John received a three page text message from his ex-wife. Sandy accidentally sent an intimate text message to the wrong person causing a series of awkward responses. All of these misunderstandings could be avoided by following a few simple guidelines. Here are the top 15 texting rules: 1.        Know your audience. Don’t be more intimate over text messaging than you are in person. This is very confusing and sends the wrong impression. A person you just met should not be getting a text message that a best friend would normally receive. It is better for a relationship to progress in person first. 2.       Double check everything. Before the se...

Yep, it finally happened to me. 12 days ago I dropped my iPhone into water and experienced "Nomophobia" which is the phobic reaction to being without your cell phone, (no-mo-mobile-phone-phobia).   For the first time in my adult life I don't have a mobile phone, and for the first time in a long time I wasn’t able to talk/text/FB/Instagram/Tweet/Post or watch baby panda's sneeze on YouTube. (Don’t judge until you’ve seen this adorable video).   Oh, and I found out that while my phone was dead, I'm actually more alive. Here's what I’ve noticed during these days of technology detox and full scale withdrawal. A lot of people are seriously addicted to their smart phones and sadly, I was one of them.   There are a series of very clever YouTube videos about the dumb things people do with smart phones, (missing the love of their life, not seeing cash right in front of them, running into trees, buildings, traffic, trains, all because they were watching ...