Soon after a break-up and in the initial stages of trying to get back together, few people can get through a text, phone or face-to-face conversation without feeling some kind of intense emotion or negative feeling (anger, irritation, frustration).
If you know you have a short fuse or tend to get ‘warm’ very quickly, it’s best to stick to text messaging until such a time that you can talk to your ex without feeling angry, frustrated, irritated, frustrated, or crying and begging.
At least with text messaging you can take time to calm yourself down, edit out the emotion and change the tone of your text etc. This is hard to do when you are talking to your ex in real time.