Breaking Up Without Words

Ghosting someone is not really my thing but I don't hesitate to be forced to doing it when I realize that further communication between us won't be doing us both any good. So to avoid unexpected quarrel that may want to lead to me seeing myself being bad, I'd rather just gradually cut off the communication and what's a relationship without communication?

With the kind of a person I've known myself to be, getting to love the circle of people I have around me most especially families and friends then it should have been so easy to guess that family members or close friends could never be in the list of anyone I would want to ghost in my life other than distant relations or distant friends but surprisingly I had both categories which I had ghosted already.
This didn't happen because I no longer care for them or love them anymore but because after so many considerations, Its just what I had to do to save myself from unnecessary depression.

There's a friend like a brother that we grew so close in communication and relationship. We had many years of friendship right from being a friend to my ex to being a personal friend and at times I understand that his actions for me eventually ghosting him might be as a result of his ultracare for me and also looking out for me as a female friend but to me, it had already started becoming unhealthy conversations and I just had to quit for my mental and emotional stability.

As at the time and after I ate my emotional breakfast lol, he was always asking when I would move on, do this, do that etc but what is the essence when your choice of words are always murdering, lol.
Initially it sounds funny when he just pops up in my DM and says "you are a lady, go and bring husband, you're a flower, there's no time for you" and many more words like that and we would talk it out but it now becomes annoying when he would even see my posts on web2 platforms and the only comment he would be dropping was "do fast and bring husband" "You are a flower so don't waste time because you have small stature" and the likes on a public platform and I would be like who is this man for crying out loud

It started getting annoying to me and more or less like wanting to put me in a tight spot to be mad at him so gradually I just had to reduce our communication by stopping to responding to his messages, comments, not picking up his calls etc.
Even though I feel bad about that initially but it was not hard to do since he wouldn't even listen after I stylishly let him know I don't like what he was doing both in my private DM on Whatsapp or in the public. Probably he didn't take me serious and I didnt want us to end our friendship on a bad note since I could possibly end it in silence with no grudges attached.

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Though this didn't stop me from attending his wedding when he informed me but bit by bit I ensured no conversation of such happened between us anymore.
Like I said, he might be after my progress but it was getting to me somehow in a kind of a bad manner so I had to keep my emotional and mental stability secured by letting him go.
Not all people will be present in our lives for life as long as they are seasonal and not all people can be keep no matter how hard we try.

Word count may not be allowing me share the one of my family I had to ghost which was the hardest for me but still I had to do it because at the end of the day, I have myself to look out for no matter how much I love my family or friends.

I'll be dropping my 🖊️ here on the Hive Learners community prompt.

Thanks for reading through 🤗

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