You go silent. No reply, no warning, no official ending. It just stops.
The last message goes unanswered. Or you were never officially together enough for an ending to be required. The logic writes itself. What you don't always track: what the silence costs the other person — the weeks of checking the phone, the 'did I do something?' spiral, the forced acceptance of something that was never named. The Eye isn't here to lecture. Ghosting usually has roots — a fear of confrontation so old it became reflex, something that taught you disappearing is safer than explaining. You know this. The question is whether you're still running the same script.
Get your read — free on iPhoneyou disappear because saying it out loud makes it real in a way you're not ready for — and somewhere you learned that leaving quietly was just how things end.