When you receive a text, if you get upset, don't respond to it right away. Pause and think critically about the different kinds of interpretations that you could offer them. The other thing you could try doing is clarifying. If I ask someone, Hey, want eggplant question mark for dinner tonight? Is that what we're referring to? Are we referring to a delicious roasted eggplant dip with way too much garlic and green onion? Or we's referring to something else.