It just occurred to me that if Kathy had really blocked me, I wouldn't have been able to send her the message asking if she was okay. Once someone blocks you on Facebook, you lose all ability to contact them or see their profile. I’m not curious enough to create another account to check if I can see her profile that way, but I suspect her account may have been hacked. The confusing part is why I can’t pull up her account, yet the message I sent appears to have been seen. That’s really odd, so maybe there’s some kind of technical issue going on.

Even though I’ve been dumped plenty of times in my life, I was a bit surprised she’d ghost me (and during a freaking hurricane), especially since we’d been getting along fine.

I asked AI about why I couldn’t pull up either of her profiles, and it suggested three possibilities. First, she might have unfriended me instead of blocking me, but I should still be able to see her profile if that were the case. Another possibility is that she unfriended me and adjusted her privacy settings so I can’t find her profile but can still send messages. That doesn’t really make sense, though, because I’ve never heard of someone blocking their profile from view without blocking the person entirely.

The last suggestion was that she might have deactivated her account which means she shouldn’t be on my friend list and her profile wouldn’t be accessible. However, she is still on my friend list, and when I click on her name, it says her account is deactivated.

Until I hear otherwise, I’m just going to assume I’ve been ghosted. Unless she found my blog and didn’t like something I wrote, or maybe decided I’m not religious enough for her, I really have no idea why she cut me off—but that’s on her.