hi. im new. and my bf & his fam sadly don't own a computer. he has a small smartphone, as do I, so that's pretty much the only way we can communicate. when he texts, he uses a lot of exclamation marks for everything lol. which i like. but there are many situations when i dont realize im taking the exclamation marks in a wrong way. one time we were texting and then i didnt hear from him for a couple of hours. i was left wondering, "um hello?" lol. being in a LDR makes it difficult cuz usually if i lived close, i wouldnt care if he took all day to text me back. but now i actually get sad. so when i heard from him he explained that his mom was using the phone to call out of the states and it took longer than he thought. which i understood and proposed that maybe next time he could tell her to hold on a moment, text me saying "ttyl" or something, then give her the phone. For me, that small text can make such a difference in the way i feel. But he said that he never does that anyways. so i just told him "ok you dont have to" and i was ready to move on from the convo. but then he said "you dont believe me!" after this i told him of course i believed him and that not hearing from him just made me sad. But he just replied with "OK" (lol how am i supposed to take a small but pronounced text like this?) & he furthered saying "There that's the end of it!"
I replied saying that he left me feeling worse and more hurt, mostly bc to me he was being insensitive.

I am his gf. I don't demand to be treated like a princess. But i didn't feel mutual respect... however when i told him this he just said "Bec we are at each others necks!"

Guys, during this convo with him my emoticons were & His was . Me and him were simply on very different pages. Do you think it was wise to just have dropped the convo and gave each other space from this petty argument? Or should we have tried to fix it? Any thoughts on what I couldve done to fix this? Thanks, Bec