I've posted before about this guy I was obsessed with for 3 years. I'm gonna call him M. M is not one of my exes I previously mentioned in my posts. He's just a guy I hung out and had fun with before and eventually formed an unhealthy attachment to. Anyway, I already stopped talking to him, but I didn't properly say my goodbyes. I did that a couple of times in the past. I sent him long messages on how I was not gonna talk to him again, but I still did. I didn't want to do it this time because I thought I would end up doing the same thing, so I just said I was really sick and I can't text him. He replied, "just text me whenever you feel better." I never texted back because I'm planning to tell him I don't want to talk to him anymore when I'm not depressed. But today, he sent me a message on my work phone saying "hi" and "how are you." (I'm guessing because I was not texting from my personal number.) I forgot that I gave him my work phone number (stupid, I know). With my stability hanging by a thread right now, I don't want to do anything that will surely upset me. If I say "Let's not talk anymore." and he asks why, that will trigger a lot of negative emotions. I left the messages "unseen."

I never want to ghost people because I don't like it being done to me. I have no intentions of talking to M again (aside from when I say I don't want to talk again.) In this case, it is okay to just ghost him? Because I don't know when I'm going to recover from depression.

I'm pretty sensitive right now, so I'm anxious about posting this. I just don't know what to do, though.