Ghostlighting—a combo of ghosting and gaslighting—is a form of manipulation that people use to convince you that they are not ghosting you.
"Cloaking" is the ghosting of the dating app era. It describes a dating practice where a person not only ghosts you but also blocks you on any app that you and he or she had been conversing on, leaving the 'victim' absolutely no way to contact them.
Coined by online dating site Match, the term refers to a situation where you are open to starting things up again with someone you previously rejected. The reason could've been bad timing or not wanting something serious.
Celebrity matchmaker Rachel London describes 'fizzling' as a "situation where one becomes uninterested in a person they're dating, but instead of breaking up with the person, they gradually reduce communication and interest, causing the other person to feel confused and hurt." While this may seem similar to ghosting, this is more stretched out and hurtful.
Stonewalling, or as it has been known for ages: the silent treatment, is when the person you're dating refuses to communicate.
This disturbing dating trend is all about taking advantage of someone vulnerable. Like a vulture circling its prey, vulturing is when someone (a predator) starts to circle someone who is heartbroken, and can be easily manipulated to date them, or in most cases sleep with them.
Tinselling is when a couple struggling with their relationship bury their true feelings and put on a facade, getting swept up in seasonal sparkle over the holidays.