As a chronic ghoster, I can tell you what it feels like to be on the other side of that “everything is normal and pleasant and then NOTHING” scenario. It is not normal and pleasant. This is the way I see things. You start dating someone or you make a new friend. You are hanging out for a while and having fun. Usually,…

Meh. It could be. I ghost people. I don’t think I’m a coward. I’m confrontational too. I might be emotionally selfish or emotionally immature (in some cases) but I’m not cowardly. When I ghost people, it is usually because I literally see no point in ever talking to them again and do not want them in my life. To me,…

What a weird family. Makes you wonder whose story is true. Intoxicated in a casino, went into labor, set a forest on fire, etc.

You can disable that feature. I can’t tell you how to do it myself as I don’t use WhatsAp, but my husband does, and he has that feature disabled. No one can see when he has read the text. Google it- I’m sure it’s not that hard to figure out if my husband figured it out without being too smart phone savvy.

I did not own one until last year. Then something tragic happened in my personal life and I needed to be available all the time. I got a smart phone, and there is a major lifestyle change that comes along with it, plus it does make it harder to focus. Things are getting better now in my life, and so just last week I…

Go home, start the laundry and then give Mr. CrayCray the silent treatment until he guesses what you did wrong and buys you a diamond.

Your friend probably wasn’t thinking clearly, and hopefully if you apologized and show support in this situation as it progresses, she will understand you are there for her. Yes, if you really need to get ahold of someone right away, you need to try several means of communication.

YEs and yes, and I lose mine all the time too. I’m constantly sending my husband emails saying “call me, and do it again and again until I locate the phone!”

I do. I spend loads of time without my cell phone. I respond to texts within a day- usually I check it at night. Unless I’m out of range which can be several days. I think it’s important to get these things straight up front in the beginning. What you are texting expectations? What are mine? Have those conversations…

BTW, I have never actually said that to anyone. I just stop talking to them altogether which seems the nicer approach. And, yes I feel guilty about it sometimes- but it’s not really that I feel bad for the person so much (since I don’t know why they’d be upset really when we were never so close) but rather that I feel…

I’ve ghosted people all my life. With only one exception, it’s been people I’ve known only a few months. I can tell you exactly why I do it.

Nah, not always. I’ve recently ghosted someone who was a very close friend most of my life. And the reasons are that for the past three years, he has been thoughtless, selfish and even a little mean. It’s not just me that has had trouble with it btw. I went through a period of feeling upset, of being angry, of missing…

Well there you go. Mental illness maybe? Let’s hope she wasn’t drinking throughout the pregnancy.

Look what surprises me about people questioning like this is that they seem to be asking why she didn’t do A or B without having any information about her circumstances. Also, it seems that many commenters here live in urban areas and have no concept of what life is like in more rural areas. Now, we don’t know…

She ran out of gas, right?

Usually, when your water breaks, you have hours to days. It’s not the sort of thing that most people call an ambulance for. Most people drive to the hospital or have someone drive them. And there aren’t cabs in less urbanized areas.

Obviously we don’t know, but I’m sure there are answers to all those questions that range from either totally logical explanations that would make you go “ah, ok” to a simple “she’s a dumbass” that would make you shake your head. In any case, since this is the internet, I want to hazard a guess that you live in a an…

Why are airlines having such trouble? I’ve heard (just heard, mind you) that they are actually not making profits despite all of these post-2001 changes. Flying used to be so easy and somewhat comfortable, and yes now it is more expensive, a bigger hassle and far less leg room. So what is the cause of this? They…

You get it free in economy on international flights. I don’t know if they charge for liquor (never tried) but you get wine and beer free.

I clicked away and then came back because I realized what troubles me most about the tone of this article. I remember being super self-conscious when I was in the first couple of years of high school. Like, thinking people were paying attention to what I was wearing or things I said and judging me. And sometimes they…