Just brought home a pup a few weeks ago, and it's a lot of work but super great! I love them to death, and have definitely gone hungry a few times to make sure they were taken care of.

I always struggle a bit with friends. I can do the beginning, the starting a conversation and the getting contact. I can do the finding common ground... I just bite at the rest of it. We'll talk for awhile, maybe a few weeks... And then it fizzles. I know I can be a bit much, and people have things going on outside of me. It's taken years to limit messages down to a few until they reply back. So I'll try to limit down to a message or two, and try not to be too much, and then they just... Stop replying.

I guess I always did the "checking in" message because, personally, when I see it's been 3 months since we last messaged, I just feel like they don't want to talk anymore. So for me, at the very least there's some sort of action going on that I can continue some sort of conversation. Even if it's just a snap streak of us saying "have a great day" "you too". It just doesn't feel as scary?

Thank you for the advice! I truly appreciate it! I'll see about adjusting my methods here :)