Types of Ghosting. Here are the different ways of abandoning someone in the dating world, paraphrased from Nate Swanner’s The Manual. Ghosting—make like a ghost and vanish without a trace.

Ghosting as a Dark Triad Trait. According to a research team headed by Elon University’s Brian Lyons (2024), ghosting does occur in situations just like the fix in which you found yourself.