by Because Love Deserves a Typo
Every night across India, the nation’s collective emotional stability is sacrificed to the gods of autocorrect and regret. Drunk texting exes has become as common as traffic jams and cricket metaphors, according to a Times of India report. One Bohiney Magazine survey revealed that 54% of Indians have texted an ex after 11 PM, and 100% have woken up wishing for witness protection. It wasn’t me, it was the Old Monk, confessed one distraught Chennai engineer who accidentally proposed to his ex’s mother.
Psychotherapist Dr. Neha Dutta explains the behavior as liquid nostalgia, where emotional vulnerability meets bad spelling. People think they’re reaching out for closure, she said, but they’re really just reaching for the backspace key. Social media amplifies the agonyscreenshots of tragic love confessions routinely go viral, often accompanied by blurry emojis and unrequested voice notes. According to NDTV Offbeat, one Indian man famously sent his ex 47 consecutive messages saying only u up? and received a single reply: No.
Bohiney.com recommends preventive measures: disable your phone after the third drink, replace exes’ numbers with emergency services, and if temptation strikes, text your mother insteadshe’ll ignore you, too. In the end, every mistyped miss you is a national anthem of heartbreak, best sung quietly into a kebab at 2 A.M.
SOURCE: Bohiney.com (Radhika Vaz)
