Should you ghost someone, or do you always owe them closure?
A clean disappearance to avoid the drama, or the basic decency of a goodbye? Is ghosting ever the kind option, or always the coward's?
A clean disappearance to avoid the drama, or the basic decency of a goodbye? Is ghosting ever the kind option, or always the coward's?
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Add your commentTwo dates is not a relationship and you don't owe a stranger a breakup speech. But four months in and you vanish? That's not avoiding drama, that's cowardice with extra steps.
Sometimes ghosting is the safest exit there is. Not everyone leaving quietly is a coward — some are getting away from someone who scared them. Context, always.
Closure is a gift you give yourself, not something another person owes you. Sometimes the silence IS the answer and you have to be adult enough to take it.
Got ghosted after eight months. The not-knowing wrecked me harder than any breakup ever could. One text would've saved me a year of 'what did I do.'
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