You’ve been told to “play it cool”, “match their energy” and leave the same amount of time they take to reply to reply back to them. But despite all those things, you feel stressed, increasingly annoyed and spend the entire time clock-watching - whether that’s for when the last replied, eagerly awaiting their next reply, only to be disappointed when you check and there’s still no response… or you’re ticking down the time that you’ve limited yourself by to reply. Surely if this worke...