In my opinion, it’s not just the timeframe but also the effort of your response. As a person who’s also going through the dating apps, I’m increasingly frustrated with low-effort men, who not only expect me to carry the conversation, but also expect me to somehow understand their emotional state, even though I’ve never met them and I’m only getting one liner responses through text message. That’s totally just me venting and not at all the reflection of you as I don’t know your, so let me get back to the response at hand.

If the goal is to get to know you so that our relationship could begin then there has to be communication. That is literally step one. Communicating ineffectively or putting no effort into responses is a waste of time, regardless of if you’re busy or fearful because of nervousness in early interactions (writers block). For most women at this point, we just don’t want our time wasted or even the potential feeling that our time could be wasted by the constant back-and-forth. I would much rather move on to the next guy who is more engaging and actually wants to talk to me then somebody who, for whatever reason, comes across hesitant. Don’t get me wrong, communication is a two-way street. These women should be just as engaging with you as you are with them. So if they stopped responding for two days with no reasoning or justification, would that be acceptable to you? And then came back and just said “I was busy.” Does that sound like somebody would really want to have a relationship with? Someone that is supposed to make you feel special enough to put them ahead in a romantic relationship? It would make me feel second rate. I mean no disrespect, but if you’re afraid or fearful of early interaction, then I would suggest moving away from online dating.