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I Got Ghosted: How To Get Over Being Ghosted?

Witted Roots
4 min readFeb 11, 2020

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Have you ever met someone new who had the potential to be more than a stranger? Were they everything you expected and more? Several weeks go by and you are enjoying each other’s company and steadily getting to know one another. However, after you’ve developed an emotional connection with the person, they disappear. You don’t hear from them again. You’ve reached out through social media, texts, and phone calls but you don’t get a response. When that person disappears, you wonder if anything happened to them. You wonder if they are okay or something tragic happened to them. It just leaves you wondering, and you never get an answer to that. Well, if you’ve experienced this, then, unfortunately, you were ghosted.

What You Experience After You’ve Been Ghosted

What exactly does it mean to be ghosted? Well, it involves a person cutting off all communication with you without an explanation, while pretending that the other person doesn’t exist. Ghosting sucks because you are left in the land of the unknown wondering what would make them just disappear. Usually, we turn inward and ask ourselves a thousand questions, trying to find one reason as to why. We ponder if it was something that we said, did, or whether it was our appearance. We may never receive the answer and we have to be okay with that. But we can’t allow…

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Written by Witted Roots

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