I guess this is the way people end relationships now. Rather than telling the other person why they are breaking up with them, folks are now just cutting off all real and electronic contact with them forever. Just from talking with some younger friends lately, it’s more common than not apparently. Is this just the state of society now?

You been on the Farmers Looking For Wife app again?

Lol. I’ve got one already so I dang sure don’t want two. It was some neighbors kids talking about it. Well they are probably about 30 so not really kids anymore.

Yep just the way it is, Everyone goes radio silence instead of having a conversation.

I guess young folks don’t have the emotional skills to be in a conversation that makes them uncomfortable. The future of our country looks pretty dim. When they were talking about it I almost couldn’t believe what they were saying.

Been that way for 20 years now

Every since the internet and internet dating got popular.

Not just lacking the emotional skills, although that's a huge part of it, but it's also the communication skills. They don't even know how to have that conversation.

Interesting. It just seems like the parents would have instilled some sense of responsibility in them. It reminds me of fixing the glitch from the movie Office Space

Nothing new. I used to hide my car so certain females would not know I was home and who didn't screen their phone calls when they came out with caller ID at home? I am sure a few cowboys came into town and tied their horses outback of the saloon instead of up front.

I didn’t know if you decided to stop seeing someone you were with casually you owed them an explanation?

I was causally seeing a girl when I met my wife. Girl no. 1 was awesome but no way on earth would it have been considered a long term plan. My now wife checked about every box. I didn’t ghost her, but would you have advised me to have a face to face conversation about how I found someone better and more compatable and expect her to understand?


Y’all crack me up. Everything on here is a complaint about something and the reason for the complaints are hilarious. This isn’t 1937, people,times and social norms evolve.

You never went to a bar or club and wake up in the morning at some randoms chicks house, Then you say hey I gonna run outside and get my cigs and haul arse off.

Don't think it's only the younger generation who does it, plenty of baby boomers do it as well.

No joke. I mean how many kids had dads who went to the gas station for a pack of camels and never came back?


I think half of the people here live in an episode of I love Lucy where life is a rosey peach all day every day.

This.....I guess they figure since it started without an actual conversation, they can end it the same way.

yep, not worth the drama.

Sounds like the last couple remodel contractors working on my house. Pay the first draw invoice, never hear back from them.

This reminds me of my wife's grandfather. He returned home from service and never could find his girlfriend and child, neither could the military. Ghosting 1943 style

He described it as a "relationship", not someone you were with casually. Both of these terms are subjective. To me a relationship and someone I was with casually are very different. If I would have ended a relationship with someone there would have been a conversation. Someone I was seeing casually, no need. That's just me.

I was apparently ghosted by someone on this forum recently. I thought it was odd. Maybe he’s sick, hurt, out of the country…whatever. Not a big deal. Probably he has a good excuse.

It’s not about expecting someone to understand. It’s about being a person who treats others as they would want to be treated. I think younger folks call it “Adulting” if you need a frame of reference.

These younger generations are terrified of personal confrontation….but all into it if they can remain anonymous!

Just can’t deal with conflict…feelings are just too fragile!

Jes my observations

I believe you just nailed it.

I don’t know of anyone in an actual relationship that ghosts someone. More likely all examples that are referenced are casual in nature but one party thinks it’s an actual “relationship”

I will agree that todays 20-something does not communicate in person as well as previous generations, but they have better tech skills.


The world is constantly evolving.

How long had ya'll been dating?

Ok, I did laugh. Never met the guy and apparently never will.