But there were darker ones.
"It's time, babe", Michelle Carter, then 17, texted to her boyfriend, Conrad Roy, who had just texted that he was "ready".
"All you have to do is turn on the generator and you will be free and happy". "I'm not saying they want you to do it, but honestly, I feel like they can accept it".
Roy: I don't get it either. From one text: "The time is right, and you're ready".
Carter waived her right to a jury trial on Monday, and Judge Lawrence Moniz will decide whether Carter is guilty of involuntary manslaughter for urging Roy through texts and phone calls to end his life.
Roy, who was found dead about 50 miles south of Boston in a Fairhaven parking lot, took his own life via carbon monoxide fumes inside his truck. Cataldo said that represents a "break" in Carter's behavior.
Detectives discovered a series of text messages in the investigation, sent a week before Roy's death, that were between him and Carter.
"She didn't cause his death".
"She made a Facebook post about [Conrad's] suicide and again the floodgates for her opened", assistant district attorney Maryclare Flynn said during her opening statement.
Now, almost three years later, Carter is on trial in a controversial case that experts say raises new and contentious questions: Can a person be charged and convicted in someone's death even if she was not with the victim when he died?
Lynn Roy also testified that after her son's death, she received messages from Carter expressing sympathy but not mentioning any prior knowledge about suicidal plans.
In another text sent to a friend after Roy's suicide, quoted in media reports on court documents, Carter wrote: "His death is my fault".
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"She talked him out of his doubts point-by-point, assured him that his family would understand why he did it, researched logistics and reassured him that he was likely to succeed, and pushed him to stop procrastinating and get on with it, mocking his hesitation", said the prosecutor.
"Just because Ms. Carter's conduct may have been wrong", Segal said, "doesn't mean there's necessarily a law in MA that made it a crime".
As police investigated the death, they found hundreds of text messages between Carter and Roy. One case involved people who took part in a game of Russian roulette; another involved a man who helped his wife load a gun and offered tips on its use.
Another gripping text comes from the day Roy died.
But, in some ways, they were actually closer than teenage sweethearts, since they were confiding their thoughts and plans for killing themselves.
Conrad Roy was allegedly encouraged to commit suicide by his girlfriend Michelle Carter What happened to Conrad Roy? His friends and family lamented a young life cut short by suicide.
Some similar cases have involved less serious charges than manslaughter.
"Suicide by cop, the evidence will show, the quickest way to kill yourself". MA doesn't technically have a law against encouraging someone else's suicide, hence the manslaughter charge.
She often reminded the grieving mother that her son was a handsome person, and that his spirit lived on.
On the day he died, she went to the beach with Conrad and his sisters, Roy testified. The case has not yet gone to trial.
That's a crucial decision that Carter, who is charged in Bristol County Juvenile Court with involuntary manslaughter, must make with her lawyers.
Judge Lawrence Moniz will now decide her guilt or innocence after analyzing the evidence - which exclusively comprise of dozens upon dozens of messages the two shared, where she allegedly mocked him when he tried to back out of killing himself.
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