On Ghosts and Zombies

Earlier this week, I posted a story about being ghosted. However, after really thinking about it, discussing it by DM with a slew of my followers, and reading more research on the topic, I realized that the story I presented was not, in fact, one of ghosting. Yes, the gentleman in question "disappeared" after our third date, but we weren't in a relationship, we'd determined that we weren't interested in anything serious and, truth be told, after that last date I never reached out to him either (more on that situation in my upcoming sex and dating memoir ). So would I call it ghosting? Probably not. That said, there are a lot of interpretations on this topic. Personally, I think you can only be ghosted by a person with whom you're really involved. If you've only gone on a couple of dates and the person never returns your calls or you don't pursue seeing them further, that's not ghosting, that's just disinterest. Another difference betwe...