Just Say No!

Tim Dahi
4 min readSep 2, 2022

The slogan of a not-so-successful anti-drug war can do wonders for your personal life

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Unlike the arguably failed and anti-drug campaign of the 80s-90s that popularized the “Just Say No” slogan, the ghosting epidemic can actually be helped with the implementation of this catchy, easy-to-remember three-word mantra. So instead of employing the cowardly and cruel method of rejection that ghosting is, you can save everyone (and you) a lot of trouble if you simply work up the courage to just say, no whenever the situation requires it –no I don’t think we should…, no I don’t want to, no I don’t have the time or no that is not right for me, and so on.

25% of participants in a 2018 study published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, reported that they have been ghosted by a partner. And those who have been ghosted will often tell you how they have had to contend with overwhelming feelings of rejection, confusion, loneliness, and helplessness created by the ambiguity of the cruel method.

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