I (26M) have been dating a guy for 6 weeks. In general, things are going well. Due to my anxiety, this is already one of the longest relationships that I've had. I've improved my anxiety in several areas. I used to panic when after a few weeks, we stopped seeing each other at every opportunity and accepted that sometimes one of us is just busy. I also trust him to be honest and communicate. But texting remains a major problem. He's usually less responsive on weekends because he plans with friends and is catching up on work. He lives about two hours from his job (which is where I live), so I have no problems that his friends get focus on the weekend. When he's with people, he's very good about focusing on them and spending less time on his phone. Yet I still get a lot of anxiety when he isn't responding much.

This weekend, I was preparing myself for limited or even no texting. He has a friend visiting him from out of towns and work to do. I tried to prepare myself mentally. I spent multiple nights at his apartment this week. When he left for his place on Friday, he was affectionately kissing me and holding my hand. He was really concerned when I felt anxious earlier in the day and made sure to text me when he got home like I asked him to. Even though we haven't decided to be exclusive, we both mentioned that we stopped going on dating apps. I reminded myself that we've had similar weekends before where his lack of texting freaked me out, but he just had plans and still cared about.

So yesterday, I sent my standard good morning text. Later in the day I sent a text about a TV show we'd be watching (which he gave me his Netflix password to watch). He hasn't responded, and I'm spiraling. I expected this to happen, but I feel like I've been on the verge of a panic attack the past 24 hours. I keep reminding myself of everything I just said but can only calm down temporarily.

Does anyone have advice for dealing with this?