http://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-8315.2008.00056.x

“Many forms of absence are painful or terrifying to us. In the era of texting, for example, there is the standing propensity to ‘interpret the interval’; this is a behavior where we spin narratives to explain why someone has not responded immediately to a communication. The seeds of these interpretations are, most often, fears or concerns… some conscious, some subconscious. By continually increasing the expected pace of often superficial communications behavior, we are often involved in creating a situation that our hearts and psyches are ill-equipped to cope with, since we depend upon felt senses of continuity and timing to understand our own roles and expectations in relationships… as well as those imposed upon us… by timing in communications activities… verbal and physical.”