I don’t know how old you are, but I’d say this gets easier with age. Not in the sense that older people are smarter or anything like that, it’s just experience. You start understanding that even a pause, silence won’t change anything in any major way if you matched with each other, and you can definitely stop worrying about it. And besides, as I got older I started to realize that with someone I feel comfortable with, even silence feels comfortable. If it makes things tense instead, I immediately assume nothing will work out between us.