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Melissa
To me “Ghosting” is the easy way out. Also, being very much a coward. I was dating someone and it was getting serious, he then asked me and him to be official and date nobody else. 2 days later he ghosted me and never heard from him again. Something like that really screws with someone’s head and that’s why I feel no matter what changes in your mind you should let the person you’re with in on it. Ghosting for me is one of the most hurtful ways to end things and screams coward
JudsyTo Raven and Anon
Thanks for your input BUT he is definitely single, went to his home MANY times.
He is definitely not in the hospital or dead as he has been seen about town.Response please.
DeniseI have been ghosted before and I did not get all tore up and freak out because I think it’s easier for me than someone telling me the truth of how they feel ,now that can really be painful I’ve been there also.
I’m fixing to ghost a friend of 3 yrs because he doesn’t understand the meaning of just friends and it’s to the point to were I’m miserable because he doesn’t listen to the truth.So yes in some cases it’s necessary and some cases cowardly
ShoshannahI think there is some confusion about terminology here.
If you told someone it’s over or that there is nothing there and tehy refuse to accept it, and it’s only then that you stop replying, like in Denise’s case – this is not ghosting. If you stop initiating contact in some shady realtiosnhip where there was no intimacy nor label (and they don’t initiate contact anyway), like in Nancy’s case – this is not ghosting either.
really???ghosting is horrific, i have been ghosted and blocked after 7 months of dating, he told me he loved me, made all the dates saw me two to three times a week, was lovely to me, one day i woke up to the block on my phone.
i reached out on my other phone five times, then got my key in the post and a note saying sorry it didnt work out.
no argument nothing, tell me how this is not destryoing to a woman, its horrific. hes obviously emotionally unavalible and anyone who says get the hint, after 7 months of dating and exclusivity is chatting rubbish.
no blue texts on any voice notes i sent he was just deleting everything. not normal, we only argued twice in the time and they were very small disagreements.its horrific.
anonI’m sorry that happened to you really???
I guess at least he sent the key with a note to give you some degree of closure. And I agree, it’s an emotionally abusive tactic.
PadminiI immediately ghost a guy, whose behavior has crossed the line. His indecency does not merit an explanation from me.
For the record, I have not nor would not ghost any guy, who is in a committed relationship with me.
There was one guy, who kept pushing to meet one too many times in a short period of time. I realized that if he is that pushy over text, there is no telling how pushy he would be in person. I blocked his number on my telephone, and that was that.
Thank you for this detailed explanation of why guys ghost, Phillygirl! It makes perfect sense! I will adjust my own behavior accordingly by accepting it is over when it is, instead of putting a guy in the awkward position of having to repeat his preference.
AlliI have experienced that before with a guy I was in an actual, committed relationship with. Very recently, he did the same thing. I texted him repeatedly to make sure he is at least alive. I sent letters to two separate addresses he has and nothing. I hope he is not incapacitated or incarcerated again. But, in the interim, the ongoing, stinging sensation from being abruptly cut off like that is mentally cruel and unwarranted. I am a decent person with a good heart, which he has told me in the past. That’s why it hurts so badly. All the crying in the world won’t bring him back. But I definitely deserved closure and was deprived of that. Ghosting is a bitch move.
RavenIncarcerated, AGAIN?!
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