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I should note that there are some majestic creatures who have their Read Receipts on, and, when they read your text, they reply it in a timely manner. Whatever it is, their receipt is a clear notification that they know you know and they want you to stew in it. Maybe they saw your message as the end of the conversation. They read your message, and they simply didn’t want to respond. The Read Receipt doesn’t leave much room for that. You soon find yourself in a text-avoidance dance that makes it all the more confusing to discern if this person is into you or not. They take their job seriously and don’t text at work…I can continue. They don’t use their phones while they’re at the dinner table. He (or she), hasn’t replied because: They are helping a friend. You see, when there is no acknowledgement of message receipt, we find comfort in our imaginations. As an editors note, if you are in this category, then please disregard the rest of this post.Īlthough I am scared of the sadistic people who leave the Read Receipts on, I’m here today to say, I respect, nay, I appreciate, the Read Receipts our devices so kindly provide, and the message that comes along with them. This group mostly consists of people living under a rock or those over 40. Of course, there is also a tiny third group of people who have their ‘read’ function on, and have no clue about it. Once that Read Receipt is delivered, these folks automatically take the position of power in the conversation, while the receiver is left awaiting their reply. The latter are people who are sending a very specific message when they open your text and don’t respond, fully knowing that you know they read it. They’re fans of excuses like “I totally didn’t see this until now!” and “Sorry, I thought I hit reply!” These people want to read your message, and process how they want to respond without the pressure of having to do so immediately. The former are people who play coy, and need time to decide on a response. I believe there are two types of people in this world: The kind of person who disables the ‘read’ option, and the people who brazenly enable it. That means, your smartphone enables you to calculate the exact time that has passed from when you send a message, to when your receiver decides to respond. The Read Receipt is a cruel feature on most smart phones, that notifies those in the conversation when, (and I mean exact minute when), one party has received, or ‘read’, the message. If you still want to know what we’re talking about, let me enlighten you. And if you don’t, then I suggest you continue living in ignorant bliss and close this post immediately. And then, in the bottom right corner of your text, you see four letters that crush your soul: R-E-A-D. You send a message, you eagerly wait for a response. It feels good to get this all off our chests. Our rants, our raves, our first dates and our worst dates.

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A series on the trials and tribulations of our collective dating experiences. They will be much more effectively and mindfully tailored to how the substitutions impact the end result.Another day, another series. Welcome to The Dating Diaries. Instead of forcing a recipe to conform to restrictions, search out recipes that are designed with the allergens in mind. If a recipe calls for heavy cream and you switch to almond milk, you're going to wind up with a much different result than the recipe intended. Of course, there are dietary restrictions and allergies to keep in mind, and if you're cooking for someone who has restrictions, you'll want to find recipes that take substitutions into account rather than attempt to change a new recipe to fit the criteria. If you haven't made the recipe before and made substitutions, you might not know whether the substitutions or the recipe itself were to blame for the missteps. If you make changes that aren't accounted for in the recipe, then you might end up with a less-than-stellar final product. For the most part, recipes are written with the understanding that you'll be using the ingredients that are listed.

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