I've been Ghosted!

[snowthx]

I am taking a break from a friend of mine due to his constant, meaningless, mundane and pointless texting of his every fucking activity at all hours of the day (usually with photos), to me and several others (usually with no response from anyone). I told him “I love you, man, but you need to stop this childish, attention-seeking behavior.” I guess my telling him makes this not exactly ghosting, tho.

My phone was buzzing several times a day with this updates, so I blocked his number and life is more peaceful now. I have unblocked him a couple times but the volume of material has not ceased, so re-block. We are also co-workers so occasionally touch bases at work - no mention of my blocking him has come up. Yet.

[Melbourne]

I’ve got a past friend. lovely women, wide set of interests, and her entire life has included finding new interests and new friends, and then passing on. I guess otherwise the old friends and old interests would just pile up and overwhelm her. And I wish her well, and continue to watch with occasional interest. But she hasn’t always handled the “passing on” right, and even when she has, the old set of friends feel a bit hurt and disconcerted.

Perhaps part of the reason she does that so casually is that she is so casually able to make new friends and develop new interests, so she perhaps doesn’t attach great importance to the loss.