Dear Eric: I recently reconnected with a man on a dating app who previously “ghosted” me. We’d been chatting months ago and had a good connection. We’re both single parents in our 40s, so we had a lot in common. We were supposed to have met for coffee and then the day came and he kept saying he was running late. Half hour. An hour. More texts. Busy day, childcare. Of course I understood. Then nothing. He never showed and never texted again.

I had too much self-respect to keep messaging beyond an initial “what’s up” and then a more pissed “WTF” the next day. I did worry that he was lying in a ditch somewhere.

But he’s alive.

I started a new profile on a new platform a little while ago and after a few weeks, there he was. We matched. And he sent me a message saying “So sorry for the mix u

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