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Breakups are always challenging. Regardless of whether you've been with someone for five months or six years, making the decision to split can cause emotional stress and pain. However, there's another ...

Acknowledge your feelings. Grief-like emotions are a normal reaction to being ghosted. Accept your emotions and express them ...

A new study published in Personal Relationships has found that ghosting—cutting off communication without explanation—can lead to emotional pain on par with being explicitly rejected. But unlike ...

Source: Tandem X Visuals/Unsplash You connect with someone, exchange a few texts, and even meet up in person for a coffee or a walk in the park. Everything’s going great…or so you think. And then, ...

Our phones keep us in constant contact, but they also enable a common practice: leaving a conversation without explaining why.

Dating in 2025 has given rise to a new heartbreak tactic: the “slow fade,” a gradual withdrawal of communication and enthusiasm that ends a relationship without a definitive break. Rather than ...

You're staring at your phone screen. It's been hours, maybe days. The last message you sent sits unopened. There's no reply, no read receipt, just … silence. This is the experience of digital ghosting ...

If you had to be rejected by someone, how would you want them to do it? Are you partial to a ‘it’s not you, it’s me’ cliché? Are you more of a ‘tell-it-to-me-straight’ kinda person? Or would you ...

When you’re dating someone new, it’s always fun and exciting in the beginning, but when you hit the two-to-three-month mark, ...

Friend ghosting can hurt more than romantic ghosting, according to research. It activates our brain's pain centers and harms both parties involved.