"You're the most special thing in my life.

"You have the most perfect (beep)

"and I love (beep). (laughter)

"You are my (beep).

"You are my (beep) and I'm obsessed with you baby."

We text any given day, like a 100 times.

- Today it's been like 50

and it's been like 3 hours.

- Texting is pretty much how we communicate

throughout the entire day.

Until we're back home together.

- We text if we're pissed off at someone.

- We're pretty young in our relationship here.

Texting is just a way to like make that connection

so strong.

- So, we're just getting rid of the easiest way

to communicate.

- Does this mean she can't send me like a photo?

- Duh, that's text.

- What about, (beep).

- [Voiceover] What just happened?

- Nothing happened all right?

I wasn't texting Jen at all.

I was grabbing my phone...

- He was just texting, he was just about to text Jen

and I caught him.

- My phone rang and it was very exciting

because I knew if my phone was ringing

it was him, but then the call didn't go through

and we couldn't hear each other.

- It already feels like, a lifetime of not texting him.

- It's 8 a.m. and stealthy Steve, ate my cereal,

and I tried calling him.

He's not responding and I'm so hungry.

- It's the second day and I've already had

the impulse to text Annie, like five different times.

I think this is gonna be a little harder than I thought.

- The calls just cut out.

Like we tried three times and now I

think we're just giving up.

You might rethink calling this video,

"Couples don't talk for a month."

- I just caught myself mid-text,

super super close to texting Jen.

- I may have to delete you from my phone

and just remember your phone number

and call you or something. - [Jen] I know right?

Do you know my phone number?

- No. (laughs)

- Half the time our conversations are just,

"Hello, can you hear me?"

- I just came from a fitness class

and the guy next to me fell off the treadmill

and it was hilarious.

I really wanted to text Steve about it.

- I saw the coolest dude ever.

This 80 year old man wearing a pot leaf hat

and just chilling.

I was like, "Hey, can I take a picture?"

He said, "Yeah, sure."

Immediately I wanted to send it to Annie

but I can't text her now.

- I have been waiting for him for 20 minutes

and it really sucks that I can't text him.

- I'm having a drink where Ben and I

had our first date.

I'd love to text him but I can not do that.

- It's strange not talking to him throughout the day

and I look forward to this being over.

- Annie and I haven't texted each other goodnight.

It feels like a part of our relationship

is diminised.

- We're at the half way point

and we have not texted each other once.

- We have not broken it once,

I'm proud to say.

But it sucks.

- Yeah, we kind of (beep) a little bit.

- We epically failed.

24 hours after we shot the first video,

we were texting. - [Steve] No.

- Hopefully, from here on out we're gonna really focus

on taking this seriously.

- There's so much that I should be telling her

that I'm not and I'm gonna forget

by the time I see her later.

- I don't know if Jolene has been fed.

Jolene, have you had dinner?

- My co-worker just asked Ben

if he is coming to a little party I planned.

I guess I forgot to tell him about it.

- It's been pretty hard not texting Annie

but I think I'm doing all right.

What do you think?

- Yeah!

When we see each other, it's like,

"Oh my God, it's you."

- So, we're less than a week away

from the challenge being over

and while it would have been way easier

at times to text him, I've kept to it.

- This is actually become pretty easy

and we're getting along great.

- We've been spending a little bit more time

just face to face.

- She and I been talking on the phone a lot more

and I like it.

- I have decided I'm gonna write a book.

It's gonna be called, "Where the Eff is Steve Canter?"

It's gonna be sort of like, "Where's Waldo."

Except that you never find him.

- We did it!

- We succeeded.

- We really hit our stride, like midway through.

And then, just like an addict, we relapsed.

- I think you said, "I need my gym shoes."

That was the text that broke it.

- I don't know that we learned to communicate better.

We just learned that we can get by

with communicating a lot less.

- We definitely hung out a lot more

and spoke on the phone a lot more.

- It made me appreciate the ability

that we have to stay in touch as much as we do normally.

- Trust me, it's actually that hard.

Because we're also each other's go-to person

for like, "Oh, this person did this stupid thing."

And now we can't do that. - [Steve] Yeah.

- I think initially, we'll definitely text less

than we did before.

- I disagree, I'm like raring and ready to go again.

- I don't know if I'm ready to just

dive right back into it.

- We'll take it slow.

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