Dear Mary:

After reading your most recent post, I am thinking that it may be as simple as it being Amanda’s intense pet peeve/ her personal source of intense frustration to not receive an answer to her text within a certain amount of time, let’s say within a few hours. In which case, you can agree with her on a particular X number of hours, as a limit to how much time you do not answer a text from her.

Your therapist gave you good advice, to “If people text me, just get back to them the next day or the day after depending how long I need time for myself“. A good advice when it comes to most people, but in regard to Amanda, she needs a response in less than a day, 4 hours, maybe?

anita