If you've been ghosted before, you know how confusing and painful the experience can be.

You thought you were building something special with someone.

Maybe it was in the early dating stages, or maybe you were much, much further into the relationship.

When someone suddenly goes silent and you're left with no closure,

you start wondering, did I say something wrong? Should I text them? Should I call them out?

Should I pretend I don't care and ghost them back? Before you do anything, pause.

Because understanding what ghosting really is will give you back your power and your control

in a situation where you feel like you've lost it. And in this video, I'm going to tell you what to do

next depending on what stage your ghosting happened. And by the way, if you are in the grief of having

been ghosted right now, stay till the end of this video. I promise where this video builds up

to is the thing you need to hear today. If you're new here, I'm Matthew Hussie. I'm a writer

and a coach who over the last two decades has coached hundreds of thousands of people and

written two New York Times bestselling books on love and relationships. As always, make sure you subscribe and like this

video. Let's get into it. When we think of being ghosted in dating, we think of a sudden disappearance.

But we don't experience it as sudden, because ghosting doesn't hit all at once. It's more like

a series of moments. First, we notice a delay in their responsiveness. Then there's

the disappointment at not hearing back. The wondering of whether they missed our message,

the silent confusion as we try to figure out what's going on in their head and the justifications

that tell us something must have happened. Let's break down the different kinds of ghosting from the least

to the most damaging and how to deal with them. Number one, the early messaging phase. We have to be

careful of overthinking it when someone we've only exchanged a couple of messages with on an app

disappears without a closure message.

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