Back in February of 2021, this now 30-year-old woman met a guy on a dating app who was completely and conventionally attractive, though not her kind of guy.

She decided to give him a shot regardless and agreed to go out on a first date with him, fully anticipating that she would cancel at the last minute because the bar was set so low for her.

“But I show up, and wow…wow, this guy,” she explained. “Phew! It ended up being one of the best first dates of my life!”

“We were insanely attracted to each other and had a ton of fitness things in common but also intellectual interests. We were the same kind of weird, too, and had tons of shared hobbies. Great, right?”

“Except, he was planning to move into a van in 2 months and go on a cross-country Road tour by himself. Oddly enough, I was in the middle of purchasing a van to do the same.”

Many people may have just walked away from this situation entirely, but she didn’t. She continued to date him, and those 2 months prior to his Road Trip flew by, and she had an amazing time.

They both made new friends, they went on little vacations, they shared everything personal with one another, they laughed a lot, and they even did small things such as shop for groceries together.

As they got closer and closer to the day that he was supposed to leave for his road trip, she thought things between them were going from incredible to, well, off.

He mentioned at one point that he was scared to “lose” her, but he really intended to take the road trip by himself.

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She insisted that he should keep doing what he thought he should, and although she loved having him in her life, she was ok with him going alone.

The only thing she asked him to be was truthful while keeping communication between them open.

“Toward the end of these few weeks, I wrote a letter for him to open on the road,” she said. “The letter essentially stated how grateful I was for our time together and how much he meant to me, no matter how it all ended.”

“I got him a little magnet with a photo of us from our trip that clipped into an airvent, so should he miss me — he’d still have me on the road with him until he was ready to connect again.”

“We set a “goodbye” date and agreed to talk again in 2 weeks and meet back up in a month. Goodbye date rolls around, and we are both incredibly emotional. Y’all, I couldn’t tell you why, but I knew this man was going to do this. My friends all said there was no way that my previous trauma was coming up. But somehow, I knew that when he walked out that door, I wouldn’t ever see him again.”

She sobbed, he sobbed, they kissed one another, they hugged, and she insisted the weeks would fly by as he promised to stay in touch.

But as she stared at him, his eyes said something different. She knew in her heart she would never hear from him after that day, and she was right.

In the weeks after he left, she attempted to reach out to him via text, but she was met with nothing but silence.

She also realized that he clearly had hit the mute button on following her through Social Media, and her heart shattered.

After 4 weeks of not hearing from him, she sent him a second text stating that she was hardly livid with him, but she just wanted an explanation.

Months later, she left him a voicemail to inform him that she found someone new, but his ghosting her was so upsetting, and she still would like to hear from him why he did this to her.

Shocker; he never called. He never texted. It was still radio silence on his end.

“My life was going great when we met, but frankly, now it’s even better: I have my dream job and make good money, a dog, two relationships that ultimately didn’t work out but were very helpful, broke my back, and then had surgery, got back into professional athletics, had a big modeling contract,” she continued.

“My life is full. I am happy. I have moved on. But I haven’t found love, and I certainly haven’t felt for anyone like I did him. But I know it’s out there. As part of my work, I have a professional Instagram account and check who is watching my story.”

2 entire years of silence later, and she can see this guy watching what she’s doing on social media. Initially, she figured he was just curious to see what she was up to, but then she realized he was looking at what she posted on a daily basis.

The thing is, she knows he found another girl to date the summer he left, and she also knows they are engaged.

“So why take me off mute?” she wondered. “Why suddenly want to know what I’m up to? I get popping in to see things once or twice over the years. But every day? I have moved on; obviously, that chapter is closed. But I do have unanswered questions…I do think I could benefit from a closure conversation. But how the hell do you reach out in this scenario, and what…does he want? He’s engaged to be married, after all.”

Do you have a guess as to why this guy is watching her after ghosting her for years?

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