In Defense Of Ghosting On Your Date

For Glamour, by Suzannah Weiss.

I will admit right off the bat that ghosting on a date is not the most mature way to let someone down gently. But let me also say that I’m among the 80 percent of millennials who have been ghosted — that is, someone was contacting me totally normally one minute and then, with no explanation, never reached out to me again. They just fell off the face of the earth as far as I’m concerned. Not only that, I’ve been ghosted by friends, I’ve been ghosted by colleagues, and I’ve been ghosted by people I was newly dating. (I have not been ghosted by a long-term partner, and I won’t be talking about that situation, which I find pretty much inexcusable.)