{"id":306,"date":"2023-06-08T10:02:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T17:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/?p=306"},"modified":"2023-06-08T10:19:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T17:19:29","slug":"ghosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"Ghosting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listening To: <a href=\"https:\/\/emotional-response-recs.bandcamp.com\/track\/primetime-dumbhead\">Primetime &#8211; dumbhead<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s define <strong>Ghosting<\/strong> first: How about &#8220;<strong>cutting off communication with someone emotionally involved<\/strong>&#8220;. It can happen it any number of settings, romance, friendship or even a business relationship. It can be temporary or permanent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There even may be solid reasons to do so (see link below)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But as a general practice, it can easily be considered insensitive or even an emotionally abusive act. A bad thing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not hard to type a couple of lines of text along the lines of &#8220;I need space to think, be back in touch in a few days or so&#8221;. Or even a &#8220;real&#8221; reason for the future absence of communication: &#8220;You&#8217;ve been a dink-face and I don&#8217;t want to engage any more&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be kind to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further reading:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theodysseyonline.com\/ghosting-needs-to-stop-and-it-needs-to-stop-now\">Ghosting Is Emotional Abuse And Our Generation Needs To Stop Doing It<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/living-forward\/201511\/why-ghosting-hurts-so-much\">Why Ghosting Hurts So Much<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/living-forward\/201903\/when-is-it-ok-ghost-someone\">When is it OK to Ghost Someone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listening To: Primetime &#8211; dumbhead Let&#8217;s define Ghosting first: How about &#8220;cutting off communication with someone emotionally involved&#8220;. It can happen it any number of settings, romance, friendship or even a business relationship. It can be temporary or permanent. There even may be solid reasons to do so (see link below) But as a general [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-learning","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}