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<p>The beauty and horror of screenshots, is that they enable us to save our text messages <em>forever and ever</em> until our organs fall out and turn into dust, and all human life has forever been scourged from the earth we destroyed.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><div><div class="video-correcting-container" style="left: 0px;width: 100%;height: 0px;position: relative;padding-bottom: 56.2493%;"><iframe src="https://giphy.com/embed/EkDhogNB3yo3C" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowfullscreen style="top: 0px;left: 0px;width: 100%;height: 100%;position: absolute;"></iframe></div></div></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>But really, saving old text messages from exes can sometimes be an asset when you need to remember exactly why you left them. Alternately, sometimes digital relics from old relationships remind how much good we have in our lives currently.</p><p><strong>At least, they did for the <a href="https://twitter.com/MayLarsen14/status/1027059199891501057" target="_blank">Twitter user May Larsen</a>, who recently posted screenshots of two text threads with two very different men. </strong></p><p>The conversation on the left shows how an old conversation went down with an emotionally manipulative ex. While the other screenshot is a prime example of what communication in a healthy partnership looks like.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Difference between a boy and a man. <a href="https://t.co/2iwE9jDEKY">pic.twitter.com/2iwE9jDEKY</a></p>&mdash; Mayc (@MaycPeterson2) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaycPeterson2/status/1027059199891501057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>The emotional dynamics of this exchange are full of red flags.</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Twitter" data-attribution-url="https://twitter.com/MayLarsen14/status/1027059199891501057" height="550" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/screen-shot-2018-08-12-at-13544-pm-8mRccy.png" width="320" /></div> <figcaption></figcaption> <div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://twitter.com/MayLarsen14/status/1027059199891501057">Twitter</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>This ex (boyfriend, hookup, whatever he was) went from 0-100 in no time. In fact, the ONLY way this kind of freak out would be excusable would be if they had prior plans she ditched on. Alternately, if he was doing a performance art bit where <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2bBZvSPpOo" target="_blank">he embodied Drake&#39;s <em>0-100</em></a> via text message. Outside of those possibilities, this type of reaction is nothing short of manipulation and emotional abuse.</p><p><strong>The second text message showed how Larsen&#39;s current partner responds to a simple night out.</strong></p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Twitter" data-attribution-url="https://twitter.com/MayLarsen14/status/1027059199891501057" height="552" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/screen-shot-2018-08-12-at-14140-pm-wUm05K.png" width="311" /></div> <figcaption></figcaption> <div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://twitter.com/MayLarsen14/status/1027059199891501057">Twitter</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>The difference between these responses to a simple night out on the town are night and day. When compare the two messages, the red flags <em>really</em> pop.</p><p>People on Twitter had a LOT of thoughts about the texts.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Na that’s the difference between someone who trusts you and someone that doesn’t</p>&mdash; Corey Figueroa (@coreyfigueroaa) <a href="https://twitter.com/coreyfigueroaa/status/1027977502445035520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 10, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Difference between a man and a cuckboi</p>&mdash; paxil (@jimthetankz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jimthetankz/status/1027752395021795333?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 10, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Some women shared similar experiences of possessive partners.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">My ex would always make me feel guilty for going out without him. Yet he went out with his friends all the time and I didn’t give him attitude like this not once.</p>&mdash; ɨȶɨ ʍǟʟɨǟ🌸🌊 (@Malia_Simone) <a href="https://twitter.com/Malia_Simone/status/1027990126864019456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 10, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><oembed>https://twitter.com/analisenicole_/status/1028493304814391296</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">You’re reminding the one on the left not to cheat. He already has his guard up. The one on the right is just doing the minimum</p>&mdash; X Æ A-12 Musk 🧟‍♂️🎃👻 #EndSARS (@immasavage3) <a href="https://twitter.com/immasavage3/status/1027899190259736576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 10, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>A lot of people assumed the texts were from two guys she&#39;s currently dating.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">SO IS EVERYONE IGNORING SHAWTY TALKING TO TWO GUYS AT THE SAME TIME?????</p>&mdash; Hotep Papi🇭🇹 (@TheRealJoshMon) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheRealJoshMon/status/1027726353414737921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 10, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Nah dude check the first one she cropped the time and allat out of it. You was right at first 😂😂</p>&mdash; 🅿️🚹Ⓜ️🅿️ (@daltonwyrick23) <a href="https://twitter.com/daltonwyrick23/status/1027766014619074560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 10, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>That quickly got shut down.</p><oembed>https://twitter.com/amandanick32731/status/1027782418797928448</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Don’t get pressed over a joke B.</p>&mdash; 🅿️🚹Ⓜ️🅿️ (@daltonwyrick23) <a href="https://twitter.com/daltonwyrick23/status/1027783377242533888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 10, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><oembed>https://twitter.com/amandanick32731/status/1027784782992875524</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Meanwhile, others were caught up with the fact that her current dude wears a cowboy hat.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">You can tell which one is the man by the cool hat.</p>&mdash; Adam Spookivant (@theseldonplan) <a href="https://twitter.com/theseldonplan/status/1027739325834899457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 10, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="in" dir="ltr">😂😂🤠YEEHAWW</p>&mdash; łⱤłɆ₮ⱤłⱠⱠłɆ 👽💫 (@IrieTrillVibes) <a href="https://twitter.com/IrieTrillVibes/status/1027809225206943744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 10, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It’s the dang yeehaw twitter <a href="https://t.co/nqV1l7Grcg">pic.twitter.com/nqV1l7Grcg</a></p>&mdash; Liv ♡´･ᴗ･`♡ (@emptyspacegirl) <a href="https://twitter.com/emptyspacegirl/status/1027768283834064901?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 10, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Regardless of whether the rest of us are pro cowboy hat (I&#39;m pro if you can pull it off), it seems they&#39;ve got a healthy situation going. Communication is key, in any kind of relationship.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Woman shares texts showing the difference between a healthy and controlling relationship.

Bronwyn Isaac

The beauty and horror of screenshots, is that they enable us to save our text messages forever and ever until our organs fall out and turn into dust, and all human life has forever been scourged from the earth we destroyed.But really, saving old text messages from exes can sometimes be an asset when you need to remember exactly why you left them. Alternately, sometimes digital relics from old relationships remind how much good we have in our lives currently.At least, they did for the Twitter user May Larsen, who recently posted screenshots of two text threads with two very different men. The conversation on the left shows how an old conversation went down with an emotionally manipulative ex. While the other screenshot is a prime example of what communication in a healthy partnership looks like.Difference between a boy and a man. pic.twitter.com/2iwE9jDEKY&mdash; Mayc (@MaycPeterson2) August 8, 2018 The emotional dynamics of this exchange are full of red flags.  TwitterThis ex (boyfriend, hookup, whatever he was) went from 0-100 in no time. In fact, the ONLY way this kind of freak out would be excusable would be if they had prior plans she ditched on. Alternately, if he was doing a performance art bit where he embodied Drake&#39;s 0-100 via text message. Outside of those possibilities, this type of reaction is nothing short of manipulation and emotional abuse.The second text message showed how Larsen&#39;s current partner responds to a simple night out.  TwitterThe difference between these responses to a simple night out on the town are night and day. When compare the two messages, the red flags really pop.People on Twitter had a LOT of thoughts about the texts.Na that’s the difference between someone who trusts you and someone that doesn’t&mdash; Corey Figueroa (@coreyfigueroaa) August 10, 2018 Difference between a man and a cuckboi&mdash; paxil (@jimthetankz) August 10, 2018 Some women shared similar experiences of possessive partners.My ex would always make me feel guilty for going out without him. Yet he went out with his friends all the time and I didn’t give him attitude like this not once.&mdash; ɨȶɨ ʍǟʟɨǟ🌸🌊 (@Malia_Simone) August 10, 2018 https://twitter.com/analisenicole_/status/1028493304814391296You’re reminding the one on the left not to cheat. He already has his guard up. The one on the right is just doing the minimum&mdash; X Æ A-12 Musk 🧟‍♂️🎃👻 #EndSARS (@immasavage3) August 10, 2018 A lot of people assumed the texts were from two guys she&#39;s currently dating.SO IS EVERYONE IGNORING SHAWTY TALKING TO TWO GUYS AT THE SAME TIME?????&mdash; Hotep Papi🇭🇹 (@TheRealJoshMon) August 10, 2018 Nah dude check the first one she cropped the time and allat out of it. You was right at first 😂😂&mdash; 🅿️🚹Ⓜ️🅿️ (@daltonwyrick23) August 10, 2018 That quickly got shut down.https://twitter.com/amandanick32731/status/1027782418797928448Don’t get pressed over a joke B.&mdash; 🅿️🚹Ⓜ️🅿️ (@daltonwyrick23) August 10, 2018 https://twitter.com/amandanick32731/status/1027784782992875524Meanwhile, others were caught up with the fact that her current dude wears a cowboy hat.You can tell which one is the man by the cool hat.&mdash; Adam Spookivant (@theseldonplan) August 10, 2018 😂😂🤠YEEHAWW&mdash; łⱤłɆ₮ⱤłⱠⱠłɆ 👽💫 (@IrieTrillVibes) August 10, 2018 It’s the dang yeehaw twitter pic.twitter.com/nqV1l7Grcg&mdash; Liv ♡´･ᴗ･`♡ (@emptyspacegirl) August 10, 2018 Regardless of whether the rest of us are pro cowboy hat (I&#39;m pro if you can pull it off), it seems they&#39;ve got a healthy situation going. Communication is key, in any kind of relationship.

Woman shares texts showing the difference between a healthy and controlling relationship