Getting ghosted isn’t a judgment on you. It’s just someone telling you who they are without typing it.

Silence is a form of communication, though a cowardly one. Someone disappearing has told you about their capacity for difficult conversations and very little about your worth, however hard that is to believe while you are refreshing a thread. An absent explanation is not a statement about you. You may never get the real reason, and that is the worst part of it.

Give yourself a limited stretch of wondering, then stop. Put your attention on the people who answer. Being left without a reason hurts, and none of it asks you to become someone else.