There's a toxic new dating trend called 'ghostlighting.' It's even worse than ghosting.
The dating world is getting more harrowing by the minute.
Just when you thought "ghosting" − or disappearing on someone you're dating without warning − was enough of a problem, a new trend has entered the zeitgeist that's even worse. It's called "ghostlighting."
Essentially a toxic combo of "ghosting" and "gaslighting," ghostlighters drop all communication only to reinitiate contact later, as if nothing ever happened. To make matters worse, they'll often try to gaslight the person they were dating into believing there was no ghosting in the first place.
