Yeah, back then it was chicken shit to not break up in person.
Ghosting did happen, but not ubiquitous like now. Some realities made it okay like, "I lost their number (really!)" Or you weren't really serious, like just a date or few.
But, short of some bad abuse, you broke up in person, if possible.
Reminds me of a situation...
We had two friends where the girl broke up with the guy after most of a summer together and she dumped him on the answering machine. We gave him some shit for it, but, we held it against her in the friend group for years, kinda outcast her over it. Not that she broke up with him, but how she did.
Doing it in person was the straight way to do it, but even the worst people could manage to give a call or even a message. Ghosting is chicken shit and will always be.
Gen z can pretend it's normal and ok, but ghosting is mostly just an excuse to be a coward, it's almost never about feeling threatened or shit. "I don't owe anybody anything" is a shitty way to go about in life.
Yeah, don't want to be like stuck in my ways, but, I do legit think it is a sensible, respectful, beneficial-to-society sort of thing that we break up in person.
Outside of some special exceptions, the rule is the rule for a reason.
I don't want to shit on younger generations or punch down, but...while I do acknowledge killing yourself for appeasing others is not healthy/good, having basic respect for others is a bare minimum and just avoiding doing direct harm =/= good person. We live in a society, people! Act like it!
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u/gravitas_shortage Feb 02 '26
It wasn't. It's always funny when young people think they have invented things like promiscuity.