A step far, far below the friendzone. This is where someone who knows you're attracted to them takes methodical steps to essentially cut you off completely. Generally, this occurs after you've told them about how you feel, but not
always- it can happen spontaneously and without any real reason. This
may occur with any
gender or sexual orientation.
The only good
news about the nothingzone is that it is immensely easy to determine you've been placed there by the person in question, and making a determination on your end is brutally simple. Just for the sake of accuracy and integrity, here is a list of things to watch out for:
1. Lack of response to *occasional* contact from you. I'm not talking about
spamming them (
don't do that. seriously.), I'm talking about reasonable attempts to maintain some kind of normal communication.
2. They create excuses to not hang out with you. If you notice that they use the same excuse frequently, or if they really start to stretch
logic to create new ones, that's an issue.
3. They make it obvious that they're hanging out with everyone else except you.
I can
handle getting friendzoned. In that scenario, someone's at least down to still hang out with you and stay on good terms. The loss of a friend
always sucks, but you have no choice but to dust yourself off and keep living.
"Hey, have you heard from xxxx lately?"
"No... texted him/her like 3 weeks ago, tried calling yesterday, still nothing. We used to hang out and talk all the
time, so this seems kind of
weird. I have no idea what's going on."
"Hate to
break it to you, but sounds like you've been nothingzoned."