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Over It And On With It

CC: Getting Over Being Ghosted

Over It And On With It

Christine Hassler

Mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2017

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Ever been ghosted which is when someone you were in communication with all of a sudden totally disappears with zero explanation. Most often it happens in dating. You are seeing someone and texting frequently and then all of a sudden . . . crickets. Ghosting can also happen in friendship. It is incredibly painful and frustrating because you are left with no reason other than the reasons you make up in your head (which are usually not very healthy!). Listen in as Christine goes on a rant about ghosting, ex

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0:00.0

Hi everybody and welcome to Coaches Corner. This week I want to talk to you

0:08.0

about something that personally gets me really fired up which is ghosting and just flaky communication in general.

0:16.5

So first let's talk about ghosting.

0:17.8

For those of you who don't know what it is, I'll define it from you.

0:20.4

This comes straight from dictionary dot com.

0:23.0

The practice of ending a personal relationship with someone by suddenly and without explanation

0:28.0

withdrawing from all communication.

0:31.0

An Urban Dictionary defines it as the act of suddenly ceasing all communication with

0:35.7

someone, the subject is dating, but no longer wishes to date. This is done in hope that

0:40.4

the ghosty will just get the hint and leave the subjects alone, as opposed to the subject simply telling them he she is no longer interested.

0:48.0

Ghosting is not specific to a certain gender and is closely related to the subject's maturity and communication

0:53.6

skills, many attempt to justify ghosting as a way to cease dating the ghosty without hurting

0:59.0

their feelings.

1:00.4

But it in fact proves the subject is thinking more of themselves as ghosting creates more confusion for the ghost

1:06.4

D than if the subject kindly stated how she he feels.

1:11.8

All right so those are the official definitions.

1:14.3

And I'm going to dive into my personal opinion about it,

1:17.4

why I think it happens.

1:18.8

We're going to talk about it from a psychological

1:20.6

and a spiritual viewpoint. ghosting just does not feel good at all and any of you out there if you've been

1:29.1

Ghosted and I've been ghosted it really hurts and it can kind of make you crazy because you have no explanation.

1:36.2

But before we talk about what doesn't feel good, I want to talk to you about something that

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