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What does a report reveal when someone vanishes overnight?

He stops replying, from one day to the next

Reconstructed case for educational purposes100% fictional data, real clinical patterns. No real conversation.
The report's verdict

A lively conversation that goes dark all at once.

58/100
Personalization — higher than 79% of the couples analyzed
3.1:1
Positive/negative ratio — healthy threshold at 5:1
72%
of the re-engagement bids come from Ava
What this report reveals
  • Each partner's true attachment profile: why Ava moves closer when Tom pulls away.
  • The precise mechanism that damages the exchanges: personalization.
  • Who carries the relationship — and at what cost (initiation imbalance 72%).

Conversation statistics

💬
982
Messages
📝
12,608
Words exchanged
📅
125
Days
📈
7.9
Messages / day
03 May 2026
First message
Ava
24 Sept 2026
Last message
Ava
10 j
Longest streak
without a break
6.8 min
Average response time
Ava

Message distribution

Ava472 msgs (48%)
12.8 words/msg57 emojis91 questions
Tom510 msgs (52%)
12.9 words/msg61 emojis100 questions

Evolution over time

Activity by hour

Activity by day

Heat map

Activity by day and hour

0h
4h
8h
12h
16h
20h
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
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Expressions from Ava

Most frequent bigrams and trigrams

1.
"do whatever you want"x21
2.
"it's always the same"x19
3.
"forget it"x19
4.
"you don't get it"x16

Expressions from Tom

Most frequent bigrams and trigrams

1.
"do whatever you want"x30
2.
"forget it"x21
3.
"you don't get it"x11
4.
"it's always the same"x11

Most used words by Ava

1.
leave57
2.
again51
3.
understood46
4.
tired44
5.
never42
6.
why42
7.
fed up36
8.
problem35
9.
always27
10.
listen24

Most used words by Tom

1.
fed up56
2.
leave56
3.
understood49
4.
problem48
5.
why44
6.
never42
7.
always36
8.
again36
9.
tired29
10.
listen27

Favorite emojis of Ava

😔
x109
🙄
x96
😤
x69
😑
x40
💔
x35

Favorite emojis of Tom

🙄
x95
💔
x95
😑
x90
😤
x86
😔
x39

The relationship analysis

43
Overall relationship score · Ava & Tom
Broken bond

A lively conversation that goes dark all at once. The report reads, in the final exchanges, the micro-signals that preceded the disappearance: a gradual withdrawal on Tom's side, an escalation of follow-up messages on Ava's. Ghosting is rarely sudden — it builds up. The mechanism is avoidance taken to its end point: for a profile like Tom's, ending a relationship requires exactly the kind of exposed conversation he has been organising his exchanges to avoid — so the exit happens by evaporation instead. Each spaced-out reply was a step already taken; the final silence merely made the direction visible. Ava's follow-ups, entirely understandable, changed nothing about the outcome, because the decision was never located in anything she said or did. The report's role here is less to save the bond than to give Ava an accurate story to replace the guilty one.

What the messages reveal

Reconstructed excerpts — the report reads each exchange and highlights the underlying pattern.

Ava
You've been pretty quiet lately… is everything okay between us?
Anxious pursuitA bid for reassurance typical of anxious attachment (Ava, 66/100): Ava seeks to restore closeness as soon as a doubt appears.
Tom
Yeah, I'm fine, just a lot of work right now.
Avoidant withdrawalA short reply that defuses without opening up: avoidance (Tom, 71/100). It is not (necessarily) a rejection — it is a way of regulating a closeness that feels unsafe.
Ava
It's my fault, I must have said something wrong
PersonalizationPersonalization (58/100) — higher than 79% of the couples analyzed. An ambiguous signal is turned into proof, without verification.
Ava
No one will ever stay
CatastrophizingCatastrophizing (44/100). This filter sustains doubt even though the facts themselves are ambiguous.

Relational dimensions

The drop-off is measurable: Communication at 34, Commitment at 33. The ghosting wasn't sudden — the scores show Tom's disinvestment settling in before the cut-off. This matters for how the story gets told afterwards: a sudden ghosting invites the question "what did I do that day?", while a measured decline answers it — nothing dated that day, the exit was already in motion. The gap between Affection (52) and Commitment (33) says the rest: the warmth was real, and the investment was leaving anyway. Those two things can coexist, and their coexistence is exactly what the silence made unreadable.

Attachment profile

Tom peaks as avoidant (71): here, going silent is the extreme form of avoidance — fleeing rather than facing closure. That says a lot about him, not about Ava's worth. Read forward, the score also calibrates expectations: profiles at this level of avoidance rarely come back with the accountable conversation that would give Ava closure — and when contact does resume, it typically restarts at low cost, without addressing the silence. Knowing this in advance converts a possible ambush into a decision Ava can prepare calmly. The asymmetry of the ending was about his tolerance for hard conversations, not about her place in them.

Gottman’s 4 Horsemen

The lower the score, the better. Above 50 = warning signal.

Positive/negative ratio: 3.1:1(healthy threshold = 5:1)

Cognitive distortions

Thinking biases detected in the conversation

Cognitive distortions (Aaron Beck) are automatic thinking biases that warp our perception of relational reality. A high score indicates a more pronounced presence of this bias.

LowModerateHigh
Personalization
Moderate58/100

It's my fault, I must have said something wrong

Catastrophizing
Moderate44/100

No one will ever stay

Personalization at 58: Ava blames herself ("I must have said something"). The report lifts that guilt — the ghosting is the other person's choice, not a deserved punishment. Undoing it matters beyond this relationship, because personalization is the story that keeps hurting after the event has stopped: it relocates the cause inside the person who was left. The file offers the counter-evidence — her messages were clear, warm and proportionate — and the catastrophizing score (44) shows where the story goes if left alone: from "I did something" to "no one will stay". Correcting the first sentence now is what prevents the second from settling.

Pursuer / withdrawer dynamic

Who pursues the exchange vs who withdraws

Ava (pursues)Tom (withdraws)
72%
28%

Balance: Strong imbalance

The in-depth analysis

Sternberg’s Triangle

The 3 components of love according to triangular theory.

According to Robert Sternberg, complete love rests on three pillars: intimacy (emotional), passion (physical/romantic) and commitment (decisional). The balance between these three components defines the type of relationship.

Intimacy43/100
Passion40/100
Commitment34/100
Relationship type: Weakened bond

The combination of intimacy 43, passion 40 and commitment 34 outlines a "weakened bond" profile. The imbalance between the pillars weakens the whole — one side carries the relationship while the others give way.

5 Love Languages

Predominant love languages of each person (Chapman).

Gary Chapman identifies 5 love languages: words of affirmation, acts of service, gifts, quality time and physical touch. Knowing each partner’s dominant language improves mutual understanding.

Words of Affirmation
Ava
48
Tom
45
Acts of Service
Ava
67
Tom
72
Gifts
Ava
49
Tom
31
Quality Time
Ava
44
Tom
52
Physical Touch
Ava
54
Tom
45

Gap: Ava and Tom do not share the same dominant language: one partner's proofs of love sometimes go unnoticed by the other, for want of being expressed through the "right" channel.

Identifying the language actually received (rather than the one we spontaneously give) prevents the feeling of "giving without being loved in return."

Detected breakpoints

Key moments where the dynamic shifted

The emotional timeline pinpoints the key moments where the relational dynamic shifted significantly: conflicts, distancing, reconnections.

21 May 2026Medium

First marked tension: reproaches replace the request, the exchange grows tense.

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28 June 2026High

Tom withdraws: short replies then silences, Ava keeps reaching out alone.

3 Aug. 2026High

The conflict replays the same script without resolution — wear and tear sets in.

Relationship outlook

Guarded

40/100

Positive factors

  • + Ava kept a respectful tone even in her distress — none of her follow-ups gives her anything to regret
  • + No aggression on her part, even where the silence might have excused it
  • + Her messages stayed clear and direct: she asked real questions, which means the absence of answers is entirely his

Risk factors

  • - Tom's withdrawal (stonewalling 74) is complete and offers no closure: waiting for an explanation this profile almost never provides keeps the wound open on his schedule
  • - Personalization (58) makes Ava carry a responsibility that isn't hers: rehearsed long enough, that story hardens into a belief she would take into the next relationship
  • - Extreme imbalance at the end (Balance 30): continuing to reach out can only deepen the asymmetry, never correct it

Nonviolent Communication

NVC Score (Rosenberg): use of OFNR format vs judgment/blame.

Nonviolent Communication (Marshall Rosenberg) assesses the ability to express one’s needs and emotions without aggression or judgment. A high score indicates more empathetic communication.

49
Ava
NVC Score /100
44
Tom
NVC Score /100

Examples

✗ Non-NVCAva

« You never think about how I feel. »

Generalization ("never") and judgment: the real need (to be taken into account) stays hidden behind the reproach.

✓ NVCTom

« I feel alone when I go a whole day without hearing from you. »

Fact + emotion + need, without accusation: the wording opens dialogue instead of closing it.

Requests come mainly through reproach: the need is real but framed in a way that triggers the other's defensiveness rather than their cooperation.

DISC Profile

Dominant communication style of each person.

The DISC model (W. Marston) classifies behaviors along 4 axes: Dominant (Red — results-oriented), Influential (Yellow — relationship-oriented), Steady (Green — cooperation-oriented) and Conscientious (Blue — precision-oriented). Each has distinct motivations and communication styles.

Dominant (D)
Ava
27
Tom
34
Influential (I)
Ava
42
Tom
28
Steady (S)
Ava
35
Tom
36
Conscientious (C)
Ava
43
Tom
62
D = Dominant
I = Influential
S = Steady
C = Conscientious

Ava and Tom do not share the same communication style (couple's communication: 34/100). Neither good nor bad — the challenge is to translate from one style to the other: a direct profile gains from slowing down, a relational profile from daring to be explicit.

Karpman’s Triangle

Dominant roles in the relational dynamic (Transactional Analysis).

Karpman’s drama triangle identifies three dysfunctional relational roles: Persecutor, Victim and Rescuer. A high score on a role indicates a tendency to adopt it during conflicts.

Persecutor
Ava
20
Tom
18
Victim
Ava
41
Tom
15
Rescuer
Ava
29
Tom
22

For Ava and Tom, the victim/rescuer/persecutor roles stay occasional and faint: the relationship is not organized around the drama triangle.

Johari Window

Zones of self-knowledge and knowledge of the other in the relationship.

The Johari window (Luft & Ingham) maps 4 zones of self-knowledge: open (known to all), blind (seen by the other but not by oneself), hidden (known to oneself but not shared) and unknown.

Ava

32
Open
Shared and known
21
Blind
Seen by the other
34
Hidden
Deliberately hidden
13
Unknown
Unconscious

Tom

30
Open
Shared and known
35
Blind
Seen by the other
20
Hidden
Deliberately hidden
15
Unknown
Unconscious

For Ava as for Tom, enlarging the "open" area — saying what one feels, asking for feedback — mechanically reduces the misunderstandings of the blind and hidden areas, which are numerous in this case.

Schutz's FIRO

Fundamental relationship needs: expressed vs desired.

Schutz’s FIRO model measures three fundamental interpersonal needs: Inclusion (need to belong), Control (need for power) and Affection (need for closeness), each in an expressed and a wanted version.

Ava

Inclusion
Expressed
63
Desired
62
Control
Expressed
13
Desired
36
Affection
Expressed
26
Desired
59

Tom

Inclusion
Expressed
32
Desired
35
Control
Expressed
48
Desired
22
Affection
Expressed
30
Desired
36

For Ava and Tom, the gap between what each one EXPRESSES and what they DESIRE is the real source of frustration: Ava waits for an initiative that he/she never openly asks for, while the other does not perceive the need.

Polyvagal Theory

Dominant autonomic nervous system activation state in exchanges (Porges).

Polyvagal theory (S. Porges) distinguishes three states of the nervous system: ventral (connection and safety), sympathetic (fight/flight) and dorsal (freeze/shutdown). These states deeply influence communication within a couple.

Ventral (connection)
Ava
30
Tom
25
Sympathetic (fight/flight)
Ava
42
Tom
13
Dorsal (freeze)
Ava
28
Tom
62

The shifts into a sympathetic state (alert) or dorsal state (shutdown) explain the exchanges that "go off the rails": under stress, the nervous system takes precedence over intentions.

Young Schemas

Early maladaptive schemas influence your relational behaviors.

Early maladaptive schemas (Jeffrey Young) are deep emotional patterns formed in childhood that influence our adult relationships. A high score indicates a stronger activation of the schema.

49
Abandonment / instability
Ava
44
Emotional inhibition
Tom
38
Subjugation
Ava
SchemaAvaTom
Disconnection & Rejection
Abandonment / instability4924
Mistrust / abuse1730
Emotional deprivation3127
Defectiveness / shame3411
Impaired Autonomy
Impaired Limits
Insufficient self-control916
Other-Directedness
Subjugation3814
Approval-seeking3610
Overvigilance
Emotional inhibition1444
0-25 (low)
26-50 (moderate)
51-75 (active)
76-100 (dominant)

Personalized action plan

Therapeutic exercises tailored to your relational profile.

This action plan offers progressive exercises, at your own pace, to reinforce your strengths and work on the areas for improvement that were identified.

1

Understand the cycle

Weeks 1-2
Consult a professional
As soon as possible

An outside perspective helps to name the pattern (pursue-withdraw, unspoken issues) without self-judgment.

Spot the trigger
Daily

Identify the precise moment when the conversation "tips over" — that is where change happens.

2

Rebalance

Weeks 3-4
Slow down the pursuit
Daily

Ava and Tom: leave room for the other's initiative rather than reaching out into the void.

Frame it in "I"
Whenever tension arises

Replace the reproach ("you never…") with the need ("I need…").

3

Rebuild trust

Weeks 5-6
Dated actions
Weekly

Favor concrete, verifiable commitments over general promises.

4

Consolidate or decide

Weeks 7-8
Take stock
Monthly

After two months, assess honestly: has the dynamic shifted, or is it repeating identically?

Strengths

  • Ava kept a respectful tone even in her distress — none of her follow-ups gives her anything to regret
  • No aggression on her part, even where the silence might have excused it
  • Her messages stayed clear and direct: she asked real questions, which means the absence of answers is entirely his
  • The warmth in the earlier exchanges was genuine on both sides — the bond was real, not imagined
  • Ava's distress stayed proportionate and articulate: the file shows a person confronting a silence, not losing herself in it

Points to watch

  • !Tom's withdrawal (stonewalling 74) is complete and offers no closure: waiting for an explanation this profile almost never provides keeps the wound open on his schedule
  • !Personalization (58) makes Ava carry a responsibility that isn't hers: rehearsed long enough, that story hardens into a belief she would take into the next relationship
  • !Extreme imbalance at the end (Balance 30): continuing to reach out can only deepen the asymmetry, never correct it
  • !Catastrophizing (44) — "no one will ever stay" — turns one person's avoidance into a verdict on all future bonds; unchecked, it becomes self-protective distance in relationships that haven't happened yet
  • !An eventual low-effort return is a known pattern with this configuration: unprepared for, it would reopen the file on the same asymmetrical terms

What the report answers

What does the attachment style reveal in this case?

Tom peaks as avoidant (71): here, going silent is the extreme form of avoidance — fleeing rather than facing closure. That says a lot about him, not about Ava's worth. Read forward, the score also calibrates expectations: profiles at this level of avoidance rarely come back with the accountable conversation that would give Ava closure — and when contact does resume, it typically restarts at low cost, without addressing the silence. Knowing this in advance converts a possible ambush into a decision Ava can prepare calmly. The asymmetry of the ending was about his tolerance for hard conversations, not about her place in them.

What red flags does the report detect?

Personalization at 58: Ava blames herself ("I must have said something"). The report lifts that guilt — the ghosting is the other person's choice, not a deserved punishment. Undoing it matters beyond this relationship, because personalization is the story that keeps hurting after the event has stopped: it relocates the cause inside the person who was left. The file offers the counter-evidence — her messages were clear, warm and proportionate — and the catastrophizing score (44) shows where the story goes if left alone: from "I did something" to "no one will stay". Correcting the first sentence now is what prevents the second from settling.

What do the score and communication dynamic say?

The drop-off is measurable: Communication at 34, Commitment at 33. The ghosting wasn't sudden — the scores show Tom's disinvestment settling in before the cut-off. This matters for how the story gets told afterwards: a sudden ghosting invites the question "what did I do that day?", while a measured decline answers it — nothing dated that day, the exit was already in motion. The gap between Affection (52) and Commitment (33) says the rest: the warmth was real, and the investment was leaving anyway. Those two things can coexist, and their coexistence is exactly what the silence made unreadable.

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