Three Types of Ghosting that Hurts more

Some of them have consequences

Atelerix Creative Quill
6 min readNov 9, 2021

Nowadays, everyone talks about “Ghosting” attributed to sentimental issues: maybe you were meeting someone in a dating plan, and suddenly they disappeared, or you were already with a person as such, and they also applied it to you.

But nobody talks about the fact that ghosting is also used in cases of friends or family.

Perhaps it has ever happened to you:

  • You meet someone.
  • You exchange phone numbers.
  • You have several dates.
  • You start a relationship.
  • Everything seems to be going well, and suddenly … silence.

Without warning, that person stops answering your texts and calls. He disappears from your life without giving any explanation.

If you have experienced something similar, you have been a victim of what in English they call ghosting, a word that would be translated as “playing the ghost” and that has been gaining popularity in recent times, being chosen as one of the words of 2015 by the British dictionary Collins.

Ending a relationship overnight, cutting off all types of communication is nothing new, although according to experts, new technologies have made it a more…

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