Bumble reply when she says she's bad at texting

When she tells you she's bad at texting, the most useful thing to hear is that she expects the conversation to be uneven. She isn't asking you to meet a standard. She's telling you what kind of pace she can offer. That tells you a lot about what to send back. If you come in with long, carefully built messages, you're asking her to keep up with something she already said she can't sustain.

Also notice the word "random." She may be signalling that her messages come in bursts, that she'll be engaged for an afternoon and then vanish. That's common and rarely means disinterest on its own. Your job is to not read a slow reply as a verdict, because the thread is built to go in fits.

Because she's flagged that she won't write much, the question you ask needs to be answerable without effort. A question that asks her to pick between two things, or to say something concrete about her day, works better than an open prompt that asks her to tell you a story. The goal is that when she does reply, a single line is enough and the reply still moves the chat forward.

Keep your own messages short too, but make sure they carry a hook. A short message with nothing in it gets a short reply and then silence. A short message with a clear thing to respond to gives her an easy next step.

Don't spend your message talking about how you feel about her texting habits. Once she's told you, mentioning it again, even kindly, puts the spotlight back on her shortcomings and makes the chat feel like an audit. Just let the pace be what it is and respond at a comfortable speed for both of you.

If you find yourself checking the thread every few minutes, that's your cue to put the phone down. The fastest way to kill this kind of chat is to show up with more energy than the other person can match.