Text messages disappearing... Why?

I was going through a message thread on my phone earlier when I realised that the thread only goes back about a month. I have been messaging this person for about 3 months now and I've not deleted a single message deliberately.
My question is, does the iphone have capacity to only save a certain number of messages in a thread? Or is there an underlying problem with my phone?
Thanks in advance,
Tim

For some reason iphone can only store 15MB of text messages (75,000), if you have that much already it is full and you won't be able to receive incoming text message until you free some space. If all that text message is important to you then I'd find a way to transfer those into your computer by using a third party program (google it). Or just take a screenshot of all your text messages and e-mail them to your computer.

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