What's worse, ghosting or cheating? ?

[Anonymous]

Ghosting is worse, cheating is a trend so not that bad

cheating

ghosting

single moms

[Aerissa_Jade]

Most will say cheating, but they don't think of ghosting like I do.

Imagine being married in a relationship for a few years, and your spouse just vanishes... real life ghosting you.

You spend days, weeks, months or even years wondering what happened. Missing person reports and all that.

You could either never find them again and think something bad happen.

Or

In the case of one of my friends her mother did that when she was little, just vanished... then years later, found out her mom just left cause she didn't want to be a mom or a wife, and went to another state to start her life over.

There she eventually married a new man, had a new family.

So how would cheating be worse than that?

[Asker]

EXACTLYYYYYY

[Bambalicious]

If you’re in a relationship then I think cheating is worse. In a relationship and being ghosted is also bad but doesn’t automatically mean they were cheating. If you’re not in a relationship then they can’t cheat.

[Asker]

but still same outcome, no? "why he/she cheated on me " and " why he/she ghosted me "?

[Bambalicious]

Outcome can be the same but it’s also possible something serious happened (say their dad died) and they just didn’t know how to handle the situation and just shut themselves off to the world. In some situations (while in a relationship) it just depends on what happened.

[mandyfire98]

Cheating, because that's betrayal of someone you trust and know and love. Ghosting, you hardly even know that person. The sting of cheating is far more devastating.

[Asker]

so if you are in 2-3 years relationship and he she ghost, means u hardly dont know them?

[mandyfire98]

I mean how often does someone just up and leave without any notice or anything after 2 to 3 years though? Is that common and I'm just not aware of it?

[Asker]

hmm no clue but based on that scenario ghosting is worse tho

[2237155]

I think ghosting is worse since it has reverse psychological effects. Also cheating is more straightfoward.