Glossary
The four signals dateread reads.
Definitions, with one concrete example each. The short version. For the long version, follow the learn-more link under each card to the methodology page.
Signal 1
Question asymmetry.
The ratio of open questions she asks you against the open questions you ask her. When the ratio tilts and stays tilted, the person asking fewer questions is doing less work, and the work she is not doing tells you what her attention is worth right now.
Three days, three open questions from you, zero from her. That is not shyness. That is a temperature read.
Signal 2
Latency drift.
The change over time in how long she takes to reply. Not the absolute number, the drift. If her baseline was one hour and her last week has been eighteen, the shape of her attention to the thread changed and the timestamps got bigger to match.
Two weeks of replies inside an hour, then a Tuesday goes a full day, then a Friday half a day. The Saturday speed is not the read. The Tuesday drift is.
Signal 3
Register shift.
A change in the style she writes in. Length, punctuation, warmth, nicknames, voice marks. The literal content of two messages can stay identical while the register does all the work of telling you how close she wants the thread to feel.
Yesterday: hey you, miss your face. Today: ok, sounds good. Both are answers. Only one is leaning in.
Signal 4
Initiation flip.
A reversal in who restarts the thread after it goes quiet. Not who replies. Who reaches first when a reply would be weird. Initiation is the most expensive thing she can spend on a thread because it requires her to think about you when nothing was forcing her to.
Three weeks of you starting every midweek hey, then on a Wednesday she sends a story screenshot with a one-line comment out of nowhere. That is a flip.
The four signals in this glossary are the system. The applied read of them, ten countable patterns in a real cooling thread, is on the signs she's losing interest over text pillar.
The live read of the initiation-flip signal, when the question is whether to send a second message into a silence, is on should I double text her.
Definitions are the easy part. The harder part is watching the four shift in a real thread and knowing what to do about it. That is the part the demo handles.
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