How about requesting her to pre-commit to not breaking up with you in response to a text or e-mail, and to not delay her response because she is considering breaking up with you.
No, no, no. Do not do this. It is bad advice!
First, asking for ANY precommitment not to break up over X is going to be a "major relationship step" and unless you are very experienced with relationships it is not something you ask for during the first two weeks, because there's a decent chance it'll harm or end the relationship.
Second, it's a stupid precommitment to agree to! There's all SORTS of good reasons to break up with someone who texts you, since the content can be basically anything.
Third, any breakup can be blamed on texts / emails, so i...
I started going out with a fantastic girl a couple of weeks ago. Everything is great, except that whenever I've sent her a text message or email requesting something and haven't received a response yet, I experience significant dysphoric anxiety, fearing that her response will be not just "no" but "no and I don't want to date you any more". This is due to brain chemistry or personal history, take your pick—either seems like a possible explanation to me. But there's certainly no evidence supporting the idea that this is likely to happen, nor is the anxiety helping me prevent it or helping me in any other way.
Does anyone have evidence-based advice, or pointers to same, on dealing with this kind of issue? It is the only splotch on what have otherwise been the best two weeks of my life.