How to stop repeating “I” in my messages

Syel · 6 November 2026

You wrote your message, you reread it, and almost every sentence starts with “I”. You count them, then you start deleting.

“I wanted to tell you I'm thinking of you, I didn't know how to start.” It becomes “Thinking of you.” You take out one “I”, then another, until it sounds light, almost with nobody in it. Honestly, that's a lot of work to step out of your own sentence.

Every “I” you remove is a bit of room you hand back before anyone can say you took too much. So the message goes out, clean and polite, and whoever reads it knows almost nothing of what you had to say. They get a sentence. You stay on the other side of the screen.