What is a typical Sunday Hinge response?

A Sunday reply is almost always about where she is in her week, not about you. She may have spent Saturday on errands, seen friends, slept late, or simply not opened the app until the afternoon. When she does open it, she tends to be in a looser frame of mind, which is why her message may be shorter in one way and warmer in another. Look at what she actually wrote. If she referred back to something you said, she was reading properly. If she asked a question, she wants the conversation to continue. A bare "haha" after three days is a different signal from a question with a detail in it. Read the content before you read the timestamp.

The gap itself is information only when it repeats. One slow Sunday tells you very little. Two or three in a row, with short replies each time, tells you her attention is elsewhere. Keep a rough count in your head, but do not keep score out loud.

There are a few broad kinds of response that fit a relaxed Sunday exchange. The first answers her question directly and stops, which is fine when she has asked something specific and wants a clear answer. The second answers and then gives her one small new thing to respond to, like a detail from your own weekend or a light opinion she can agree or disagree with. The third skips the answer and asks about her weekend, which works when her message was vague about what she did.

You can tell a draft is the right kind when it contains one answer or one fact and one question or invitation at most. It should be about the length of her message, maybe a little longer. Leave out any sentence that explains why you were slow to reply, any sentence that tries to be funny three times, and any second question stacked on the first. A Sunday reply needs room to breathe, and crowding it makes it feel like homework.

Send your reply in the same part of the day she used, or within a few hours of it. If she wrote on Sunday afternoon, a reply the next Tuesday morning will read as cold, and a reply at midnight will read as either eager or half asleep. Let it sit for a few hours if that matches her rhythm, but do not let it drift past the next day unless she has gone quiet herself. If she does not answer after a reasonable exchange, wait at least a day before any follow-up, and make that follow-up lighter than your first message, not heavier. One gentle nudge is reasonable. Two unanswered messages in a row usually mean the thread has run out of steam for her. Stop there, and if you want to try again, start a new thread on a different day with something specific rather than repeating yourself.