@chelsie_sewell: hot take: getting ghosted isn't always rejection. i used to think being ghosted meant i wasn't interesting enough, pretty enough, or worth getting to know. so i'd replay every conversation, wonder what i did wrong, and try to figure out how i could've been "better." now? i see it differently. if someone disappears instead of communicating, i don't automatically assume i wasn't enough. i assume they weren't able—or willing—to meet the standard i'm looking for. and my standards aren't impossible. they're consistency. communication. emotional maturity. effort. ghosting tells me a lot more about how someone handles discomfort than it does about my value. not every connection is meant to continue. not every person is capable of showing up the way you deserve. sometimes the closure is realizing they removed themselves before you had to lower your standards to keep them around. if you're healing from people-pleasing, rebuilding your self-worth, or learning to trust yourself again, let this be your reminder: someone else's inability to show up isn't evidence that you need to shrink. ✨ follow for more honest conversations about healing, self-trust, dating in your 30s, and becoming the version of yourself who no longer abandons herself to be chosen. 🏷️ #datingadvice #ghosted #selfworth #HealingJourney #datinginyour30s

rye :

I always take rejection as redirection. Life is already stressful as it is, I do not need someone or something that will add to that stress.

jane :

Number one way to get ghosted is telling him I’m demisexual. They want a sex doll not a girlfriend. Never had so much ghosting and it’s such a relief!!!! I love being ghosted. Boy bye.

Morgan Hermès :

How do you program your brain to do this tho 😭

sar.stories :

this can’t be good for my delusion

lovebugalfiche 🤍 :

Rejection is just redirection. Sometimes we don’t know what we are being saved from, behind ghosted is not always a bad thing 🤭

beckyglid :

This is the right mindset! I was ghosted earlier this summer and it really bothered me for a while, but then I realized I truly do think it was because of my standards & what I was looking for longterm. Way better for them to show themselves out! 😘

stephensunyak :

just had it happen to me. and I agree 100 percent

Chatty Kathy, PA-C 🧿 :

I like to remember “my future husband wouldn’t do this” and yeah he’s not good enough for you!!

jhoopy :

My new way of thinking THANKYOU. I just got ghosted and I needed thissssss

Jody Lissette :

brenna :) :

I’m just pissed because I was going to breakup with him the right way and he just drops me like nothing. Why did I even try to be an adult

Elizabeth Bilisol815 :

haha - I love that! 😂

Misty Lee Belcher :

I need to start being like this!

SCENOVA :

Never had it happen before so I was so confused, especially since he said ILY, let’s date, then disappeared! Now that I know, won’t be as offended that next time.

❤️ Tammy ♥️ :

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