Texting: the double edged sword

I have heard that I am attached to my phone, and I admit first hand that I am. I always have my phone available and what this done is make me readily available to everyone. I try to break this habit. I feel like I have started to do well with not constantly checking my phone then BOOM! It's always attached to my hand again. I love texting. It is an easy way to spread information, it is an easy way to make plans, and it is an easy and fast way to get in touch with someone. I hate how attached I am to my phone, yet I know this will not change. I know this will not change because I am in a relationship where for 8-11 days that is the only way to talk to my man friend. Having a relationship strictly through texting is hardly a relationship at all. You can not tell the tone of the voice of the person you are talking to, you can not see their face when they "hear" your words, so you do not know how they are taking them. You do not know if they are typing out of anger or happiness or sadness. Texting has a way of starting arguments that no one ever intended to have. Texting has a way of making you made when you are readily available to someone and it takes them hours upon hours to respond to you. It hurts when you phone sits there and does not light up. It hurts when you feel like you live your life waiting on a text from someone, waiting on a text that may never come. It hurts when you feel that people should always be as available to you as you are to them,and they see differently. It is hard to describe. Texting really is a double edged sword. You can send a text and never have a disruption to what you are doing. You can talk to people for hours a day through text but in the end you are not really talking to them at all. You are talking to a screen. They are talking back to that screen. IT IS INSANE! I know I am not the first person to feel this way. I can't  be the only person to feel this way. I feel that is I take a little time each day for myself and do not worry about my phone then I can learn to be happier. I can learn to do more. I can learn to live more in the moment around me then in the moments in front of my face. Texting should not be the only way to communicate. Texting should be short and brief. I am going to work harder on understanding that and work harder on not texting as much. There is no reason for anyone to always be attached to their phone so from now on I won't be.