He might not have money to buy you gifts, or if you’re the side chick he doesn’t want you to think he’s ready for the that kind of commitment. He’ll

be back, no doubt, once the holiday dust settles and he wants some. Question is, what you gonna do?

Your guy knows you aren’t going to take the bad news that he wants to break up very well, so…he just doesn’t tell you. 

In the early stages, when daters aren’t exclusive, they can get caught up in a lot of texts and yours may get buried. People feel like it’s too late at

some point to reach out. Another relationship starts going and they forget to wrap things up with you. Whoops!

Rather than tell you why, he believes that it’s kinder not to engage and to spare the details. However, people who have been ghosted say being ignored feels like they’ve

been thrown away like garbage—much worse than hearing a goodbye.

Depression is hard to understand, if you don’t suffer from it. Depressed people sometimes withdraw from the whole world—not just you—and they totally believe that their loved ones are better

off without them. 

This is an old way of thinking, in vogue waaaaaay before technology. If the man you’re dating thinks you’re considering breaking up with him, or he doesn’t think he’s good

enough for you, he’s gonna strike first. 

Depending on where he is in his life—school, work, travel, family commitments—and how close your relationship is (not very?), it could just be that he’s too busy to be playing

around with heart emoji’s. 

Science says women’s brains have better connected circuitry between the left hemisphere (logic) and right hemisphere (intuitive thinking), so therefore females more capable of processing things like emotions and memory.

Men are less organized than women when switching between tasks… so maybe he really did forget he owes you a reply. 

Maybe you’re too clingy or you text him with questions like, “So, what are you thinking right now?” It’s a tried and true technique: Don’t feed the bears. Eventually the

bear will give up and leave you alone. Take it down a notch, and see what happens. 

Truth bomb: He might just be having too much fun to text you back. If you keep on blowing up his phone while he’s in the middle on IRL hang

time with his squad, then you annoyed him and he’s giving you a time out.