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Over four years ago I went out on several dates with this guy and we slept together. After that, I never heard a word from him again, he didn't respond to any of my texts. I would definitely consider this ghosting. However, recently this guy and I were talking online for two weeks and he was quite full-on. Saying he loved me, wanted to marry me, talking about sex, etc. Eventually, it got too much and I stopped replying. A few weeks later, he gets back in contact to say how he's angry and hurt. I had previously stipulated the sex-talk was getting a bit much, but he still carried on. Nonetheless, I accepted my responsibility for cutting this person off and thoroughly apologized. Now they're saying they will never forgive me. Is this person being a tad over-dramatic, considering we'd never met? I don't see why he had plans to marry me a few weeks ago, but now he's saying we don't know each other? Henceforth, I'm genuinely curious to hear other people's ideas on what counts as ghosting.

My mother used to meddle too much and gossip bad things about my boyfriend. She literally made others believe he was using me for sex. He talked about him as if he was the worst guy ever. Her best friend at the time (an older woman who was also my friend) died years ago. She died believing he was using me for sex, for my virginity.

The reason he got upset and visited me less was because one day my mother herself said ''don't come, my husband's friend and relatives are coming over for a whole week, you can come some other time''. He close to my house already and he felt excluded, hurt and offended. So he got upset and then my mother got upset at his reaction (him not coming over anymore) and started gossiping endlessly about him. Then she insulted him on my b-day, issued him a false apology over the phone and continued being a fake person for years. His friendship with her was a falsity for years.

Only after her health started getting worst and this pandemic not going away, she started softening her stance and has accepted him by now. I told her the real version, which she questioned why I never spoke up for him. She wouldn't have listened. She only started listening to me now. It took him a long time (years) for him to finally forgive her.