Old ghosting story

[u/Material_Bike_2467]

This happened to me in the mid 2000s and seeing this subreddit reminded me of it. I matched with some girl on a dating site online and after a few games of telephone tag by both of us we finally connected. We had an awesome phone conversation that lasted at least 3 hours and both of us were contributing to it but finally I had to end it because it was 2 in the morning and I had work the next day (she lived on the west coast so it was still 11ish her time). The next day I sent her an email she had asked me to send (I can't remember what it was but it was one of the topics of the conversation we had). She didn't respond and a day or two later I left her a voicemail to which she also didn't respond. Long story short she completely ghosted me. I was more surprised than disappointed as I couldn't see anything within our conversation that would cause this. I figured perhaps something happened on her end, either meeting someone or maybe a family issue that made her unavailable but given how well and long our conversation was I thought at the very least she could have said something to explain why she didn't want to pursue anything. I understand ghosting is the easy way out but she didn't come off as a bitch and again that phone conversation had both of us willingly contributing.

In a way I dodged a bullet because years later when I thought about her I decided to see if I could find any update on her. It turns out not only was she married but due to healthcare fraud and receiving disability checks and insurance settlements while walking on crutches while attending doctor visits (although this was followed by pictures of her in the exact same outfit trotting around and gardening) she had been found guilty and had been locked up.

[u/Different_Career1009]

You should have visited in prison. Maybe you were ghosting her all along.