Guerrero: In defense of ghosting: It's useful against toxic partners and politicians (via latimesopinion)
of the fairy tale from a VHS tape depicting a loathsome frog who stalks a young princess to her home for a kiss.
“It was the true goodness in your heart that has awakened me from the old witch’s evil spell,” he says. “There’s something sweet and almost kind — but he was mean and he was coarse and unrefined. And now he’s dear and so unsure. I wonder why I didn’t see it there before!”In my teens and 20s, I repeatedly fell for tormentors and trolls. I forgave them, thinking I could transform them.
Ghosting struck me as a cowardly way to end a relationship: cutting off all contact, without explanation, just to avoid the discomfort of breaking up. I saw it as a shortcut used by conflict-averse Gen Zers and millennials who’ve become so reliant on digital communications that they’re losing basic human decency. Studies show that being ghosted can cause psychological harm.
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