Can't receive iMessages via Messages on Mountain Lion? However, can send.

This seems to be intermittent. At some point Messages stops receiving iMessages. It stops even showing me the iMessages I send from Messages. They are in fact sent though. I can see them on my iPhone and iPad and have confirmed the recipient receives them.
If I remove my account and add it back that sometimes takes care of it. However, it's just a matter of time (usually a day or two) before it stops working again. This is really frustrating. I stopped using Me years ago and this is my first experience trusting Apple with a messaging service again. It's like returning to an abusive relationship! Please help!

Hi,
There is an issue that sometime crops up in both iChat and Messages  where the individual IMs (or iMessages) don't show up in the Chat even though the chat is progression.
If this describes what is happening to you then go to the View Menu > Messages and change th Style choice to anything but Balloons.  (Only change this when the Chat window is "Front")
Does this improve things ?
The Message Style are controlled by Plug-ins.
It is not clear what happens to the Balloon one but often people have the symptoms you describe.
Up to iChat 5 (in Snow Leopard)  you could use  the Install disk to reinstall just iChat and then re-update it by running the combo version of the last update (iChat and Messages updates are included in the OS X updates)
I would try Downloading and Installing the Combined version of the last OS X Update over what you have.
8:21 PM      Wednesday; November 28, 2012
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