Texts of Mac from e-mail instead of phone number

My texts of Mac recently started coming to my email instead of my phone. Unless I put my phone also the text of my e-mail does not sync the two so I have two threads to send SMS. I'm not sure how to solve this problem, but it is a problem when someone continues to text to my Mac when Im not on it. I usually never receive messages. I know how to set up my phone to send and receive texts/emails, but I don't want that it set up this way. I want that all texts - on my mac, iPad and iPhone to sync to my phone only number.

'texts' - do you mean iMessages, right? (Do not send as SMS Mac).

On your Mac: Messages > preferences > iMessage account > start new conversations of > select phone number in the drop-down list.

On iOS devices: settings > Messages > sending & receiving > start new conversations of > check the phone number.

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