To ask: have you ever had someone just stop speaking to you for no reason?

Yes ! Dp family! Wondered why at first cuz it was very out the blue but now thinking about it his dm probably slagged me off to them all like she did his brothers ex ! Everyone turned against her because of his dm

Yes. Once in high school. A girl I'd been friends with all through primary school - slept at each other's houses, spoke daily on the phone after school etc. She said she wanted to talk to me after school. I went to meet her and she wasn't there. Waited, but nothing.
Eventually went home and called her. Her Mum very apologetically told me she didn't know why, but she said she doesn't want to speak to me.

She acted like she couldn't hear me at school, and even stranger, about 10 years later I was in a shop with DS who was a baby at the time and her Mum came over to make a fuss etc. Ex friend glared at her Mum and walked off.
Mutual friends have told me they asked why we weren't friends anymore and she's told them not to even mention me again!
DS is now the age we were when she stopped talking to me and I'm still completely perplexed by it all.

My condolences, that must have been very shocking.
I had a friend (we had lost touch with each other a few years before) take her own life, it's hard to comprehend.

My friend of 20+ years stopped responding to my messages. Initially I would get very short responses but then they stopped completely. I tried and tried but eventually gave up. After 2-3 years of silence she contacted me, apologised for disappearing, said she was having some health issues and feeling lonely. Had a good chat, I offered my support from afar (we lived in different countries), arranged a video call that lasted few hours, all good. Few months after that she took her own life. It's all very sad, I still can't make any sense of it.

well done! When it's over, it's over.

So irritating, even ignorant, when posters do that.

@GutsyBrickMoose this is the second thread you've started with an open question but no input? Last thread you didn't post at all after OP?

No, and to be honest, if someone treated me like this I wouldn't want to know them anyway.

Yes and I’ve also been the person to stop replying too. Sometimes it’s really not deep as others are saying ‘there must be a reason’ sometimes it simply is life moves fast, people get wrapped up in their own lives and simply do forget for a while.

Oversharing and then embarassment is the simplest reason why my stepmum went into radio silence, I think.

Yes, assume there is a reason but they don’t want to share it. It’s upsetting - or was - but I’m comfortable I’ve done nothing wrong and had to accept I’ll likely never know / be able to do anything about it. Bumping into them will always be awkward to some degree but it gets to be less of a thing over time. My best guess was they felt they’d overshared with me and were embarassed. They’d called me drunk one night and spilled a lot of stuff - sort of a sensitive area but nothing awful, I didn’t care about what they told me and hadn’t told anyone else.

Not close friends but after my daughter's left primary school i had a few mum friends who all of a sudden blanked me even to my face. They were all mutual friends of someone who has never liked me so I've alway put it down to that

This falls into the, "No good turn goes unpunished" category.

I did this to someone who was once my best friend. We had drifted apart over the years and she changed a lot. We only saw each other about once a year, but the last few times we met I starred to feel that she was definitely more of a frenemy than a friend. The final time we met she told me some lies about another mutual friend (I was much closer this mutual friend than she realised so I was 100% sure she was lying) and also she went on about her supposedly amazing life so much that I couldn't get a word in edgeways to tell her some important news of my own.
I didn't want a confrontation with her, couldn't face it, so i ghosted her. That was about 5 years ago now and I don't regret doing it.

I've moved on from a friend. Whenever we met she always got a sly racist comment in, which I would pull her up on. I used to come home feeling pretty low after meeting up She was better off than me but always managed to never pay her full way when we met for coffee and cake. .
I made excuses to why I couldn't meet but she never took the hint. I don't know if it would have been kinder to outright tell her that I didn't want to have a friendship with her anymore.

Happened to me as a kid when I was about ten, both best friends just suddenly started blanking me.

It haunted me for years. I went on to make other friends but I never found out why. I've never spoken about it to anyone IRL.

Years later one of them tried to reach out on Facebook, instant block. Fuck you 😂

Yes my 2 best friends. They slowly edged me out when they were both pregnant at the same time. There's 9 years age difference between me and them and my dc are 17/20 so i just didn't fit their life style anymore unfortunately. It hurt for a long time but I've made my peace with it to some extent.

Yep 15 year friendship ended when I bought a house in an area she wanted to live in. I got married around the same time. She actually goes into my hairdressers to slag me off. I think she was secretly happy when I was a single mum with no money.

Yes. My stepmum abruptly blocked me after my dad died last year. We had even got quite close during the initial funeral and acute grieving period but now, nothing.
We don't live in the same country so contact was always either by phone or email but still. I worry sometimes that her mental or physical health has taken a turn for the worse but she has her own adult son who lives nearby so I'm a fifth wheel really. She could ring or message me right now and I would carry on as if nothing had happened. Bereavement is tough. I'm grieving too of course but y'know.

I'm basically my dad in every way so maybe talking to me triggers her.

It hasn’t happened to me but I know alot of people who are moving in silence and making their circles small and private since we hit our mid 30s.

Yes. Best friend. Something happened, but no idea what. Happened about a year after she met her now husband. She blocked me out of her life and when I tried to meet up a few times to talk about it, she always cancelled last minute. I eventually gave up... It sucked. No feelings on it now, as it's been years, but I do feel sad that our lovely friendship just ended.

I befriended a new woman in the neighbourhood. She and her DH and mine were all from the same country . We babysat, holidayed together spoke every day. Then she started meeting up with other neighbours and her sons friends parents . No problem to me , I too had other friends . But it seems I wasn't enough of a party girl , mean talker or liked to spend silly money to keep up with each other. Totally dumped , no explanation or discussion. Shame as I really missed her for awhile .

There’s always a reason

Yeah: a friend did this. We had been close (each others bridesmaids). Then I had my child and a few years later she had one. We met up one day and she’s not spoken to me since. And I don’t know what’s happened .

There will be a reason, OP they just don't want to discuss it. Some people don't like confrontation.