Where Did They Go? How To Deal When You've Been Left 'On Read'
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It's something every woman has experienced. You text someone yous really like or someone you're dating, and and then all of a sudden everything is upended when yous hit send. You discover that your message is somehow being ignored. And you know it's on purpose because bae wasn't smart enough to disable the read receipts. Congratulations! Y'all've just joined the familiar visitor of people who have been left "on read."

If you've heard the pop phrase but wasn't quite sure what it really meant, Urban Lexicon defines it as follows: "When y'all text someone, they come across information technology, but they don't text dorsum." Though it can exist used interchangeably with the relatively new dating term "ghosting," there could be legitimate reasons you've been temporarily left on read, as opposed to someone simply disappearing or never responding to your messages again.

Regardless of which definition applies to your romantic situation, both experiences, without question, suck. Those few minutes or hours trying to determine whether bae lost interest or got distracted doing something else is enough to make even the most confident woman feel a trivial insecure or anxious. So while you look in agony, here are a few ways to cope until you go a reply—that'south if you get a response at all.