Ghosting is almost never about you.

It feels personal because you're on the receiving end. But the decision to ghost almost always lives entirely inside the person who does it.

Fear of conflict drives most of it.

People ghost because saying goodbye feels harder than disappearing. It's an avoidance strategy, not a judgment of your worth.

Sometimes life just swallowed them.

Anxiety, a crisis, overwhelm — people vanish for reasons that have nothing to do with the conversation they were in.

Your imagination fills the silence with the worst.

The real danger of being ghosted is the story you tell yourself about it. Most of those stories are wrong.

Move forward anyway.

The person you haven't met yet isn't the one who ghosted you. Keep the door open.

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