Ghosting Stories That Will Make You Second-Guess Your Mate
“I Still Have No Idea What Happened”: The Worst Ghosting Stories Straight From The Internet
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Charlize Theron did it to Sean Penn, Jason Sudeikis did it to Olivia Wilde, and according to a new report, 80 percent of millennials have ghosted or have been ghosted during their short dating life.
What exactly is ghosting? When you leave your last date and boyfriend pretending like things were fine — and then just never talk to the person again. That’s what happened to these people who shared their worst ghosting stories with the Internet.
They thought their relationships and marriages were fine. That is until their significant others dropped off of the face of the earth with no explanation why.
Has anyone ever cut out of your life with no explanation? Or have you ever opted never to call someone back when things went stale? If you’ve ever been ghosted or ghosted someone, we’d love to hear your stories in the comment section.
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The Husband Who Went Ghost After 16 Years
During their 16th year of marriage, a woman dropped her husband off at a friend’s house, and that was the last time she heard from him…
She did manage to trick him into picking up the phone two weeks later by using someone else’s cell to hit him up, but “we never actually sat down and discussed our relationship and he never officially told me he was leaving, or why.”
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The Security Gate Ghost
“Michael,” who was dating “Linda” for three months, had just introduced her to his parents and made things official.
Then he went to her job to surprise her with her favorite cupcakes — only to find that his name had been removed from the visitors list. He tried calling, but she stopped taking his phone calls, and he never heard from her again.
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The Engagement Ghost
Ten months into their relationship, he bought her a promise ring and said he was just waiting to ask her mother for permission to marry her.
And then he disappeared:
“He wished me a good day and said he loved me like always. Then, that was it. Not a word from him again. He deleted and blocked me on Skout, Facebook, Snapchat, Kik, and apparently blocked my phone number. I even sent him letters and they said return to sender. Later, I found his brand new profile page on Facebook. When I tried to send him a message, he immediately blocked me. I still have no idea what happened or what went on.”
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The Facebook Ghost
Six months into the relationship, a couple were starting to talk about their future because, as far as she knew, “everything was going amazingly and we loved each other.”
That is until he suddenly announced that he was still in love with his ex and disappeared from her life completely — well, everywhere except Facebook, where he posted daily despite ignoring all of her calls, texts, and messages.
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The Ghost That Came Out Of Nowhere
He sat her down, told her he was falling in love with her — and then disappeared right after. “The only reason I know John isn’t dead is because OkCupid shows me he’s online every now and then.”
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The Ghost Who Faked A Death
Several months into their relationship, everything was going well until he just never showed up for a lunch date, ditching her completely out of the blue. She finally got that she was being ghosted when she found out that he’d “deleted me off of Facebook and everything.”
What’s crazier? Four months later, he came back around to tell her that he’d ghosted because his mother died. And she took him back — until she discovered that his mother wasn’t dead at all.
That time, she was the one who went ghost.
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The Best Friend Who Ghosted
One woman’s BFF stopped talking to her right after they graduated and disappeared out of her life “with no calls back and no explanation.”
Would you rekindle a friendship with a friend who went ghost and then came back to say they were sorry? That’s what happened when the ghosting “friend” called out of the blue, four years later “to tell me she had a daughter and she thought I ought to know. We’re back in communication now but I don’t think I will ever fully trust her again. And she never explained why she just stopped talking to me. I still have no clue.”
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The Ghost Who Made Mondays Worse
“It was a Monday, we had been dating for about six months, and he said he’d call me after work. That was five years ago…”
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The Ghost Who Was Really Just A Cheater
“I met a guy right before he deployed to Afghanistan. We got a little hot and heavy before he left… we talked almost every day while he was gone, made plans for when he came back–”
And then the guy went ghost. The young woman didn’t know what went wrong between them–until she started getting messages from his girlfriend…
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The One Who Ghosted To Another Country
“I was dating a guy in college for a few months. All of a sudden, he stopped responding to my texts.”
As it turned out, the guy randomly decided to drop out of school and moved to Switzerland like it was nothing.
“It was such a weird experience.”
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The Ghost Who Upgraded
One woman spent most of the summer taking care of her man when he was “super sick.” Then he got better, found a new job and started to go ghost on her.
It turns out, he met someone at his new gig and quickly kicked his loyal girlfriend to the curb.
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The Co-Worker Who Quit To Go Ghost
These two co-workers were friends for two years and in a relationship for almost a full 12 months when she suddenly announced that she was quitting and disappeared from the job and his life as well.
He found out a year later that she’d run off to get back with her ex, get pregnant and get married all within a few months.
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The Same-Old-Story Ghost
He went from texting her every five minutes for a month and a half to complete radio silence — right after they slept together for the first time.
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The Ghost Who Pretended To Be The One
“A year ago, Mr. X and I met and rather than a chemistry between us, he referred to an ‘atomic explosion!’ We both wanted to be with each other as often as possible. When we weren’t together, it was texting and more texting. (I learned all the symbols for expressing affection.) He remarked: ‘Don’t you feel like a teenager?’ YES…
Then over a two day period the texts were fewer until there were none. He did not return texts, pick up his phone, or answer emails. Nothing! Although at the time I didn’t know the term ‘ghosting’, that’s what had happened to me!”
