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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Entertainment
Maddy Mussen

Is ‘zombieing’ the new ghosting? Unpacking the new toxic dating trend

Look, it’s 2023, we know what ghosting is. We’ve all likely had it happen to us, at least once, and done it ourselves (though we’re considerably less keen to admit the latter).

Except the problem with the perennially relevant ghosting in our era of dating apps is that it also has a billion other variations on the same theme, such as “orbiting”, “breadcrumbing”, even “houseplanting.”

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