Dumped by Text Message

Miley & Nick, Chace & Carrie, both dumped via text message by their young boyfriends. I always thought that’s the price of young love nowadays in the tech age. Courting, relationships and dissatisfaction are all now communicated through a type pad on a Smartphone. You don’t even have to know how to spell because the phone auto-completes the words for you.


Being a young, somewhat attractive, thirty-something I believed my relationships were with smart sophisticated, older men, who know how to communicate in person. But I was wrong. Absolutely wrong.

I was dumped via text message two weeks ago: I’m trying to do the ‘right’ thing…but let’s keep in touch.

I had so many questions. Namely, who does this over the age of 25?! With someone they’ve known over 6 months? I felt like Carrie when Berger dumped her with a post-it note. Seriously, a text message? I don’t know what the ‘right’ thing. But for me it’s being a man and talking to a woman you’ve been seeing. 

I’m just wondering, is there any hope if a man, in his 30’s, communicates about a relationship via text message? I guess I need to start dating much, much older. Hello, any single man, older than 40, I’m available.