You’ve heard of ghosting. Meet its even more shameless cousin – when a love interest who disappeared off the face of the Earth just as suddenly reappears
In a manner of speaking, yes.
When they rise half-decomposed from their graves to stagger through the dawn streets and smash in the windows of your house?Or they might pop up and like something you posted on Instagram. Am I still supposed to shoot them in the head? Because that’s starting to seem a little disproportionate.This isn’t like any of the movies I’ve seen on this subject.So zombie is a dating term?Surely you’re familiar with ghosting – when someone you’re seeing romantically suddenly vanishes, in person and online, without explanation?Zombieing is when someone who ghosted you suddenly reappears weeks, months or even years later, also without explanation.
Zombieing can be more callously incidental – perhaps someone you were dating vanishes off the face of the Earth, and then two years later tries to connect on LinkedIn.What turns people into zombies? It’s probably the virtual nature of online contact – even after behaving badly, getting back in touch is low risk and low consequence.What should I do if an old flame who ghosted me suddenly zombies me?My instinct is to drive over and stand underneath their window all night.“Hi, just texting to see if you were maybe trying to zombie me and lost my number.”
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