Key points

Rumination after being ghosted can lead to impulsive and compulsive online behaviors.

Being ghosted can be a predictor of maladaptive daydreaming and problematic social network use.

Mindfulness practices and experiences of awe can alleviate the distress of rumination after being ghosted.

Ghosting , the sudden and unexplained ending of communication in a relationship, is now a common form of rejection. Unfortunately, ghosting has become normalized as a stealthy act of abandonment in a digital world—a disappearing act that we can all get away with.

But ghosting is not only rejection, as painful as that is. Being ghosted utterly leaves us without closure or explanation. We are not only gutted by loss, we are spinning in rumination, confusion and self-doubt. This dark confluen

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