Matthew Hussey, dating expert at howtogettheguy.com and howtogettheguy.com/blog and author of New York Times bestseller "Get the Guy," told Business Insider UK what he thinks is the best thing to do when somebody disappears from your dating life.
Here's a transcript of the video:
The only way to deal with ghosting is to keep moving forward.
People worry all the time. "Why did he disappear? Why did she not text back? Why did they show so much interest and then all of a sudden they're going cold?"
It doesn't matter. The only thing you need to know is that they disappeared. Closure is overrated.
You could waste your whole life trying to get closure on something that person is never going to be honest with you about anyway.
How many people actually know why their ex-partner broke up with them? They got their ex-partner's version. They didn't necessarily get the real version.
Closure is overrated. Let me tell you what's underrated: your time. Your time is the most precious resource you'll ever have.
If you use your time analysing something instead of moving forward and meeting someone new – you're crazy.
Time is the most finite resource. You have to see yourself as a train that's leaving the station. Your life is a train that is going somewhere.
Someone can either step on board, or they can get off. They can't sit there with one foot on the train and one foot out of the train and expect not to get hurt. This train is leaving the station.
The next time somebody is ghosting you, you move on. You meet somebody else. That's it.
Produced by Claudia Romeo. Filmed by David Ibekwe.