Ghosting, unfortunately, is nothing new. The term has been around since the early 2000s, and even before then, people were being r andomly cut off by romantic interests before there was a word for it. And yet, of course, no matter how commonplace it’s become, it still stings the same.

So in today’s particularly awful dating landscape , people are trying to prepare themselves ahead of time. Actually, they’re going into dating expecting to be ghosted.

In a viral TikTok video , user @kiwiproductions.tx says that this is how she moves in her relationships. “Nowadays you have to pretend that every time you see the person you’re talking to, it’s potentially the last time you’re ever going to see them,” she says in the video. “It’s happened to me too many times to count.”

As a response, people in the comments are sharing their own ghosting stories —and warnings to be aware of this happening to others. “You have to be prepared to be ghosted at any moment, even if you’re fully in a relationship,” one user wrote.…