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When The Ghost Comes Back, Leave Him On Read
Respect the dead. Leave him on read.
By Molly Burford
It’s been a few months since you last heard from him, despite the fact you reached out. You’ve been ghosted.
You took the space to process. You cried. You grieved the chance that never got to be. And the day you were finally ready to move on officially in the ceremonious act of deleting his number, your phone buzzes with a message from him that reads, “Hey stranger.”
Your stomach drops. You then screenshot the text and send it along to all your friends asking, “What the hell do I do? Do I even respond? What do I say if I do?”
Part of you is excited, another part of you is hesitant, and another part of you is honestly pissed. It is a confusing array of emotions, to say the least.
The part of you that is excited to hear from him wants to give him another shot because you really liked him. You felt that you two had a genuine connection and a shot at becoming something serious.
But the hesitant part of you is telling you that he will ghost again and it’s not worth opening your heart back up.
The pissed part of you is enraged that he came back like he did not just leave you in the dark for three months without any…
