...I suppose largely because I never had the occasion to ask a man anything.

That’s ideal, but sometimes people are not able to take “rejection” and will pull all kinds of manipulative crap instead of saying “well, I wish we could keep this relationship going, but I respect your request for some distance.” I had a terrible experience with someone I was trying to back away from. She wanted more…

We’re only hearing about this from someone on his side, so I don’t have a lot of faith that it’s really “ghosting”. When my mom split from my abusive step-dad, he was all “She was just gone! I have no idea what happened!” to drum up sympathy, but it was pretty obvious to everyone else what happened.

Everyone dies alone kid.

My favorite ghosting story is this guy I dated who turn out to be a prick so I wasn’t even upset when he ghosted me. Deleted his info and six months later.

I got ghosted by a girl last year with zero warning or preamble, after months of passionate correspondence. It totally fucked me up for MONTHS. Then she comes back out of the blue, we set up a meeting, I spend a weekend with her, and she ghosts me again.

Ghosting was so much easier before cell phones. I think Charlize was probably hiding from an angry Penn as opposed to ghosting him.

He cleverly timed it to the beginning of a month-long international trip for work. He disappeared so thoroughly that at first she thought he’d run into some travel disaster, because when you can’t reach your loved ones for days you of course worry about an accident. She finally confirmed through his assistant that he…

I was ghosted after a 5 year relationship. Five. No infidelity between us. One big blowup every 2 or 3 months. But I genuinely believed we were happy. We traveled together. Cooked together. Read together. Did the NYT crossword together. I have never been so happy with another person in my entire life. I bought a house…

My dad in the 70s with Col. Sanders.

That’s pretty mean. Hopefully your inability to communicate when you’re not interested doesn’t come back around on you, because I wouldn’t wish being ghosted on very many people. It fucking sucks.

Better for whom? It’s not like the emotional fallout doesn’t happen, it’s just that you don’t have to witness it. Generally speaking, if you’re making a choice that leads to another person absorbing a greater share of misery in order that you might be able to absorb a lesser share, it’s not an ethical choice.

If you look at the photos of them together chronologically, you can tell she was unhappy Early Spring, and that it was over in her mind by Late April. #armchair

I’m honestly wondering if this was really “ghosting” or more just “leaving an abusive relationship.”

I was ghosted once by someone I was totally in love with - it was incredibly cruel and cowardly and it took years(!) to get over. So, if it had to happen to someone else, I'm glad it was Sean Penn...

Sean Penn’s evil spell ended and Theron woke up and realized “Goddamn, I’m Charlize Theron and I’m engaged to Sean Penn! That’s enough of this bullshit.”

Seriously..what was that relationship even about?? The man is an alcoholic garden gnome.

Your grandma looks like Karlie Kloss! Supermodel status.

Williamsburg-level stache.

Dad. Vietnam, 1968. He passed 3 years ago, so fathers day is still kinda rough. But thanks for the cheekbones and eyebrows, dad!!!