Sending as text instead of imessage

Hi.  For the most part I love imessage as it allows me and my family in the States (I live in Canada) to exchange texts without incurring international texting fees.  However, I have noticed that many of our texts are not delivered to our phones.  The problem arises because we have multiple devices with our Apple ID, so if I am out and away from wifi, sometimes, the message will be delivered to my computer or ipad and not to my phone.  When I try to send a text to my brother during work hours, I have to send it as a text, otherwise, it goes to his Mac instead, and eh won't see it until I tell him to check there.  The messages are showing up as "delivered" so none of the workarounds such as clicking the message to switch to SMS will work for me.  So far, the only workaround I can see is to constantly go into my settings, turn off imessages, and send the text.  The problem is that I don't want to have imessage permanently disabled, since I do really like it.  And to comstantly go back and forth is clunky, and contains none of the elegant ease that I expect with Apple products.  Is there an easier work-around?

Not sure how an iMessage is being sent as a text with Send as SMS turned off with your iMessage setting.
Has the recipient turned iMessage off?

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