 Ghosting is ultimately about control. It's a form of control. It's a form of digital silent treatment. That if I can go quiet on you and not speak to you, unblock you and remove you from my world, then I don't have to deal with any emotional discomfort that explaining myself to you may involve. So I avoid and bypass emotional discomfort. Yours or mine and just cut you off. That's the essence of ghosting. It is a form of ultimately emotional control and manipulation when people do that. The thing about ghosting is it's worse because if I ghost you and cut you off with no explanation, I leave you to try and invent an explanation and I don't care what that might be, whether it's accurate or not, whether it's the truth or it's worse than the truth and your invented idea is more damaging actually than what I did do it for. It is no care about what you put into that space. So what happens with ghosting is it feels like deliberate emotional cruelty because I leave you to figure it out.