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Three or four exchanges then silence is so consistent a pattern that it is almost always structural rather than personal. The usual cause is that the conversation has no momentum to lose.
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'How was your weekend?' 'What do you do?' 'Any plans this week?' Each is answerable in four words and none of them gives the other person anything to work with.
Two rounds of that and the exchange dies of boredom, which reads exactly like rejection but is not.
If they write six words and you write six words back, you have agreed to a conversation that cannot go anywhere.
Someone has to put something real in first. It may as well be you, because the alternative is a slow fade.
A dating app conversation has a shelf life of roughly two to three days. After that it quietly becomes a texting relationship with someone you have never met, and those end without an event.
Suggest something low-pressure once there is mutual engagement. Not on message one. Not on message twenty.
Ask one specific question about something in their profile. Offer something of your own alongside it, so they are not being questioned. Propose meeting once it is flowing.
If they give short replies twice in a row, let it go. That is triage, not failure, and it frees you for the ones who are actually engaged.
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