He Ghosted His Girlfriend After His Cat Passed Away Two Months Ago, And He’s Still Too Ashamed To Reach Out To Her
About two months ago, this 26-year-old guy experienced a heartbreaking loss. His beloved childhood cat died.
Now, he realizes that the death of his cat may not sound like a huge deal to people. But, to put it into perspective, his cat was 20.
He got his cat when he was just 6-years-old and selected her from a batch of barn kittens. So, for the past two decades, she has been a part of his everyday life.
“Thinking about how I will have to turn 40 to break even of my time with my cat and my time without her is crazy to me,” he said.
“She’s been a constant for my life my whole life.”
So, after his cat passed away, he was devastated. And he wound up not really talking to anyone for a while.
He recalled how it took everything he had just to muster up the energy to complete his final exams that semester– which just so happened to be the very day after his cat died.
And being that he was so exhausted, he actually did not even realize that he should probably tell his girlfriend about what had happened.
But, a few days after the loss, he wound up checking himself into a hospital.
Alena Ozerova – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person or cat
“And I still can’t say if I even checked my phone for updates,” he revealed.
Anyway, by the time he got everything sorted out, he thought he had been gone for just a few days. However, he soon realized that he had not checked his phone for two whole weeks!
During that time, his girlfriend did send him a few messages to ask if he was okay and what was going on. But since they were in a long-distance relationship, there was not much she could do otherwise to get in touch with him.
Yet, once he realized that he had basically left his girlfriend hanging for two weeks, he just felt an overwhelming sense of shame and fear because he knew he had seriously let down someone who cared so much about him.
That’s why he just kept pushing off getting back to his girlfriend. And in the end, he never actually got around to it.
He knows his girlfriend did not deserve to get essentially ghosted like that after she did nothing wrong.
“But I am afraid and ashamed to take responsibility for it,” he vented.
So, he’s been left wondering what to do even though he’s not sure if he can bring himself to reach out to his girlfriend now.
Is it understandable that he needed a break from talking to people following the loss? Even so, was it right to never reach out to his girlfriend after ghosting her? Can you imagine your partner just disappearing, and you have no idea why? Should he reach out to her now?
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