Unpopular opinion: ghosting is a completely acceptable form of ending an endless text conversation.

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There’s a difference between fizzling and ghosting. Ghosting is when there’s been enough interaction in person and over phone that there’s a reasonable level of expectation that the interaction will continue but the person just disappears. If two people have just been texting and haven’t met up or even went on a first date and no response after, that’s fizzling. There’s no reasonable assumption that things will continue that early on.

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I’m referring to your first scenario.

I don’t think that is ghosting. Ghosting is more about two people building towards a relationship with heated conversation and one just completely falls off the earth. Which is okay too because it means they meet someone else or just get busy with life and you are not so great in their eyes. It’s better to have a conversation though

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Completely agree PwC1. I’m so sick of these long, drawn-out text chains (after you’ve met in person) where one person is obviously not that interested, but they check in every few days/weeks just to make sure they stay on your radar (to clearly keep you as a backup option whenever they get bored or their first choice doesn’t work out). You have the decency to respond to their text, and then they take days to respond. In that case, I’m definitely ghosting/not responding and won’t feel bad about it.

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Yes. But what’s “endless”

That's not ghosting, IMO. That's a conversation naturally fizzling out, which is perfectly acceptable.

Flat out ghosting is never acceptable and is one of the most disrespectful, immature things that happens in dating.

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