Sms being sent via iMessage to none iOS phone

Hi,
My other half never gets my texts as my iphone is sending them via iMessage to here 80's Nokia.
How do I get my iPhone to realise that it should be sending them via sms?
I have seen lots of posts with the opposite problem.
Cheers
David

Yep, it can handle SMS.
It might not litterally be an 80's phone, but I guess I didn't intent for the comment to taken litterally.

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