This is Hello Freedom and I'm your host Terry Cole.

For almost two decades I've been a licensed psychotherapist and transformation coach, and on this show I will bring you simple strategies based on practical psychology, inspiring expert interviews, and my own insights and observations

from my time on the front lines of the fascinating worlds

of entertainment, impairment, and mental health.

Now let's get going with today's episode. Well hello and welcome to Hello Freedom I'm your host Terry Cole.

So this episode is about the really bizarre phenomenon of ghosting in the dating scene.

So have you guys ever been ghosted? Have you ever been a ghoster? I'm curious to know. I'll start with a story about

ghosting, which was a public story actually. In 2015, after a publicly hot and

heavy romance and engagement, Charlize Thiran and Sean Penn

split or more accurately according to the tabs, Sean Penn got ghosted. So what does this mean? I mean the actual definition, if we want to say what what is ghosting, right?

The actual definition is one of the

someone that you are going out with or even a friendship you can be

ghosted is where someone just stops responding to you. Right, ghosting is one of the cruelest forms of torture,

really that dating itself can serve up because social rejection activates the same pain

pathways in the brain as physical pain.

That's a true story.

In fact, you can actually reduce the emotional pain of rejection with pain medications

like ibuprofen or

Tylenol. That's actually a true story. So I don't know.

I mean, it listen, Shirley's theorem came out afterward saying in 2016

and some, you know, in some interviews saying she didn't ghost him.

But anyway, this brought ghosting which already if you were on dating apps was

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