What is a good way to get someone to stop E-mailing texting me?

Try having more direct conversations with her. Call her on the phone, and talk to her for a good while. Maybe she is shy and doesnt like direct conversations. Go out with her more often and whenever you see her tell her exactly how you feel about the messages…but in a respectful way. The best way is for you to be honest.

Most emails will allow you to block them from sending to you or put it in the Junk file. You can block numbers texting you as well.

nuts. Block her.

I presume you still want to see her, or else you’d simply block the numbers, right?
Tell her you don’t like to be bothered at work, home or wherever with a buzzing phone. At work it is ___ dangerous/forbidden/embarrassing (fill in the blank) At home you find it disturbing. Even during quiet times sometimes you need to ____ take a nap/work on the PC/fix the rain gutters/ cut the grass (fill in the blank) and it frustrates you when the phone rings and it is not important.

Think about this for a moment. When you dial the phone you are calling someone when it is right for you, not necessarily the recipient Call her when you are driving to and from work (Hands free of course) or when you are walking from A to B. If you get her VM don’t just say “call me back”. Say “Sorry I missed you. I’ll call her.later.” and do it.

Do you want to hang with someone that clingy, or is it worth it?

@Summum. I’ve opened a new email account and transferred the important emails over to it. How do you block a text message?

I would refer you to your phone and its service. I would bet they have a feature that you can block it with.

@coffeenut Do you want to cut her off? That is easy. If you have Verizon they have free VTEXT service. You can read about it online or call the free 611 number.

I have, and the only way they know of is blocking the number, aka no calls nothing and I don’t want that yet, I want to just block the text messages

Honesty. Tell her to stop straight up. Beating around the bush will do you no good with this person. My next best bit of advice is run. She sounds obsessive. Very.

@coffeenut Do you have Verizon? I only want text messages from a few people – emergency only type things. I set a free VTEXT account and only give the number to trusted individuals. Everyone else is blocked. It works.

Q posted 45 min ago, 14 texts so far
This is turning into a dealbreaker…... It’s really too bad because she is great without her phone

@worriedguy No I don’t, I live in Canada.

Do you answer her texts? If you do, stop.

If she really is a great person without her phone, she should be able to understand that you don’t need to be in constant contact. If she can’t get it, you might have to look for another lady whose thumbs don’t have keypad imprints.

Is she young? I’m just wondering, because I’ve never heard of someone over age 30 who’s that crazy into texting.

@Seelix Well she’s 25ish , I used to answer (the first month) they were mostly trying to get her to text in English but I haven’t answered since. I don’t even read them anymore….just delete

@coffeenut It sounds like the two of you need to have a serious conversation about it. It sounds like she wants (and possibly needs) more communication in the relationship, while you want/need less. When the communication is off balance it causes problems (which you are already feeling). Explain to her that the amount she is texting/e-mailing is becoming a deal breaker and that if she can’t settle down, it will end whatever the two of you have going. Be straight forward and do it sooner rather than later. Discuss what she feels she needs/wants from you in communication and tell her what you need/want from her in communication. Then try to come to a compromise. It could be that she is sending you all those messages because she wants to hear something back from you or that she thinks she needs to in order to prove she’s into you.

Good luck!

You’ve already explained why this is such an issue for you, and it hasn’t changed. If you want to make the relationship work, I suggest finding out why she persists. Ask her why she texts and emails so often. Perhaps if you ask questions and listen well, you can get to the root of the problem. You’re a lot more likely to reach a compromise and fix the problem if you work on its roots rather than the visible part of it.

The problem is that whenever we discuss this we play “the circle game”

(start) Where she loves texting, it’s the greatest thing in the world according to her and I should love it too, (now cue the hundred reasons why it’s great) now it’s my turn to explain why I don’t like it and would rather call someone then try to learn text speech, spending time typing it out even though she can do it in micro seconds lol (now cue the fifty reasons I don’t like it) and that it’s just not for me, BUT I don’t understand how great this is…(REFER BACK TO START)

This sounds like a dead end as far as a mutually satisfying solution is concerned. Either you decide to fall in love with it and play her game (thus spending most of your life texting), you continue to ignore her texts and eventually end up with her feeling devalued and unloved while you feel trapped and disrespected, or you cut your losses and leave with your sanity intact. Given that you seem to have already tried the good communication side of things, I’m not convinced you really have any other options.