Ghosting energy is the ambient emotional atmosphere someone projects when they're clearly checked out but haven't officially disappeared yet — slow replies turning into no replies, conversations that go one-directional, the conspicuous absence of any initiation. It's the pre-ghost warning signal that your read of the situation is probably correct. When someone is giving ghosting energy, you haven't been fully vanished yet, but the writing is on the wall in capital letters. Naming it gives the person being faded out permission to mentally prepare.
I don't know what I did but she's been giving pure ghosting energy all week — single-word replies, no questions back, seen-zoning everything.
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