- And she wrote,
"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.
(upbeat music)