Getting left on read changes your notifications, not your value.

The gap between sending and hearing back is where imagination does its worst work, because silence carries no information and your mind supplies some anyway. Most non-replies are about somebody’s day, their inbox, or a message opened at a bad moment and then forgotten. It rarely means what it seems to mean at eleven at night. Your standing has not moved.

Give it a couple of days without building theories. If it matters, follow up once, plainly. Then go and do something that has nothing to do with a phone.