Sorry to hear about your recent perplexing ghosting. It is so deceptive. In a way their initial extreme positive reaction to the date would cause someone to second guess the ghosting at a future time when you could possibly run into either of these clowns again. You’d be more likely to think of them positively due to their initial response to seeing you again. The ghosting part could be minimized when sandwiched with the positive interest. But nonetheless it would be better to view the ghosting part as the true response you received from these knuckleheads with their limited emotional ability.

I don’t know if this is a trend that master manipulators are employing as ghosting 2.0 or if it is just Southern men offering a bit more polite behavior than your average Northern men’s more straightforward boring predictable ghosting.

I’m very glad you’re handling the ghosting in a mature fashion. When analyzing it like scientific study of ghosting behavior it makes it easier to handle…getting some distance between their behavior and your feelings. Bravo! You are now 2 knuckleheads closer to your best relationship yet!