I had a friend who unfriended me on Facebook and ghosted me. She and her husband have two children that my daughter was friends with. We used to visit them frequently and I’d hang out with the parents, and my daughter would hang out with the two kids (a boy and a girl). We had mutual friends and we were all friends on Facebook, too. This woman unfriended me one day, about five years ago, and because we had not had any bad interaction, and I felt it must have been a mistake, I called her and asked if I did something to offend her, because if so, I wanted to rectify it. She said it was a mistake, and she friended me again. Then shortly after that, she unfriended me a second time. I didn’t try to contact her again. She also unfriended the other couple that are mutual friends, for no apparent reason. They (my other friends) have run into the husband a few times in the local supermarket, and all is well, but he says his wife is nuts and their marriage is barely holding on.
My daughter often says she wonders about the two kids and when we used to go to her orthodontist, this couple’s house was on the way home. I used to say one day I was going to stop there and just say hi, mainly so my daughter could see the kids. I don’t know if I ever will. What really makes me sad is that the kids were good friends, and because the mother is nuts and volatile, the kids can no longer see each other.