Whether we realise it or not, most of us have ghosted someone. It might have been a person we were dating (this is what most of us think of when we hear the word “ghosting”), or it may have been someone else in our life who was waiting, hoping to see us again, before eventually realising we’d slipped away in silence. We could have done it to someone we’d once called a friend.
As a concept, ghosting is generally frowned upon. It’s something done by people who aren’t emotionally intelligent or brave enough to end a relationship with dignity. When we’re single and dating, being ghosted at least once is a rite of passage, but it’s an ending usually soothed by the reminder that someone who would ghost you isn’t the type of person you’d want to end up with long term. In romantic relationships we hope for someone who works through difficulty rather than leaving us on “read”; someone who would rather have a hard conversation than never speak again.
