I'm going to share a thought that I recently had and posted on Lanie's board.  Here it is:

"It seems like at least some of the relationship stress that we have is self generated.  We've created the ideals of timing and what is "enough".  Things tend to go like this "He was short on the phone today,  I'm sad."  "He hasn't replied to my texts,  It must be over" .  "I haven't seen him in a few days,  he must have someone else."  and so on. Once we have those lingering thoughts,  it embeds and we have that negative energy.   But, when you think about it - these beliefs have been fairly recently introduced to the dating world.  

If we step back and look at things from a wider perspective,  some of the longest marriages and relationships(such as grandparents and aunts) - maintained the majority of their duration without having cellphones. When my grandfather would leave to work, my grandmother would not speak to him until he returned home that evening. There weren't any good morning texts etc. How did we get to a point where things like texts, calls etc define relationships?

With social media, it's like walking into a room and knowing what everyone is talking about and even where they are.  That stuff isn't natural and has created an unnecessary layer to dating if you ask me.  How can we get rid of these ideals?  It's worth a thought because some of us drive ourselves nuts"

I'm with him,  I don't understand your anger either.  From what I gather - you aren't in an exclusive relationship with him and for the time being he would be free to do whatever he wants.  I'll be blunt,  your reaction was extreme and repealing. I never think it is a good idea to get into arguments with these people.
 

I know I reacted childishly and I am embarrassed about it.
 

Books like He's Not That Into You have a lot to answer for.

Avaelle wrote:

PrettyFlamingo wrote:

You know this is what puts me right off going out with anyone!  Immature behaviour from guys. 

Really?   It seems like they may have been texting every day.  Maybe he just needed a breather.

If I was in a sexual relationship with anyone (to me this means commitment - I wouldn't do it otherwise) I would expect reciprocal, back-and-forth contact and not to have to play games by being afraid to phone/text/email whatever and I would expect that person to reply, as I would with them if they contacted me. 

To pick up another point that has been mentioned, not LOA or anything but just an anecdote on the signs of the times and maintaining a relationship without social media, texting or the like. I was talking to someone recently in her late 50s who met her husband in the late 1970s. They lived in cities 90 miles apart and met in a club in the city she lived in on a midweek night. They spoke every day on the phone that week and met up the following weekend. She didn't have a car or a phone in her flat, and so he rang her at work, or she would go to the phonebox and call him or he would ring her at a pre-arranged time, they wrote letters, and met each weekend. They got married within 8 months because they were fed up of the distance and are still together now. How cute and quaint! Would we put that sort of effort into a relationship now with all the media distractions?