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Texting to Connection.: The Modern Dating Communication Playbook.
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 22 2025
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Turn matches into real conversations with a set of simple, repeatable habits that remove guesswork and preserve your dignity. Texting to Connection gives clear, behavior-based tools for opening, sustaining, and pacing early chats so they feel mutual and natural.
This book is for people who want to stop performing and start connecting. Inside you will find practical frameworks you can use tonight: OLI for fast personalized openers, the TIS filter to keep messages topical and safe, Share-and-Invite prompts that avoid interrogation, the CIR ratio to pace exchanges, the OCRI scan for early signals, and the 3-Message Cap plus Energy Matching to prevent anxious over-messaging.
What you get:
- A repeatable opener method you can craft in under 60 seconds
- Share-and-Invite templates and a ladder of prompts from easy to playful
- A simple scan to mark green, amber, and red signals in the first 10 to 20 texts
- Pacing rules and micro-actions that protect time and reduce stress
Written by a seasoned relationship and communication coach, this guide pairs short drills with copy-ready examples so practice is fast and measurable. Pick one framework, try one tiny action tonight, and notice how your conversations change.
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