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These Are the Signs That You’re Going to Be Ghosted

The Dating Truth
5 min readJan 12, 2020

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Your relationship is coming to an end and you might not even know it.

Dating has become very complicated over the last 10 years. Whether you want to lay the blame upon online dating, or dating apps, what we know for sure is that dating has changed. While dating apps and online dating, and there is a clear distinction between the two, have definitely impacted dating, the debate on whether or not this impact is a good thing still continues.

Even though they get a bad rap, online dating services (and apps) have made us all better daters in the sense that we do it more often. In 2012, the average American went on just 1–2 dates a year. Today, those numbers just reveal a slow afternoon. More adults are going on more dates. In this environment there is bound to be shifts in our behaviors.

Ghosting is one of those by products of “over-dating”. In the past, when singles were incredibly selective about who they went on a date with, it was easier to point to clear signs of incompatibility. Today, most people stop dating someone for innocuous reasons like ‘their vibe was off’.

Ghosting isn’t new, and there are various degrees of ghosting. In effect, ghosting is being blown off in an inexplicable way. Unlike in the past, without the interconnectedness we have now with social media, someone…

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The Dating Truth
The Dating Truth

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I’m Fauna Solomon the founder of The Dating Truth a digital resource for dating advice. We offer the most diverse advice on modern dating available.

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