My old person trait is that I think ‘ghosting’ is completely unacceptable and you owe the other person a face-to-face conversation.

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    1 year ago

    Won’t the same (or worse) anger happen though, if you just ignore them for long enough?

    It does seem like the person you replied to had the right idea, to be definite in your relationship position.

    If the texting person is the kind of person you describe, a confrontation seems likely to happen sooner or later anyways. Might as well get ahead of it, and not hide from it.

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      1 year ago

      Why are all these people so readily engaged with violent, abusive people in the first place? I’ve never my life met a man or woman so violent that a text message of rejection would cause them to act out aggressively. I’m not saying it doesn’t happen, but the text message ain’t the problem. Ghosting is cowardice and disrespect incarnate to the rest of the 99% of people they’re interacting with.