Not always ❤️ — although it can certainly feel that way.

“No contact” can mean very different things depending on the context:

• If it’s your choice: It’s usually about protecting yourself, setting a boundary, or healing from someone who caused you pain. In this case, “no contact” doesn’t reflect interest or disinterest, it reflects self-preservation and strength.
• If it’s their choice: Sometimes it does mean lack of interest, but sometimes it means they are overwhelmed, unable to face their own emotions, or simply not capable of showing up in a healthy way. Silence can be about avoidance, fear, pride, shame—or indifference.
• In healing after abuse: No contact is often essential. It doesn’t mean you never loved or cared. It means you value yourself enough to stop letting someone harm you.

The tricky part is that our minds often interpret silence as rejection. But silence can just as easily be confusion, self-protection, or an inability to communicate.

👉 A better way to frame it might be: “No contact means either they don’t want to connect—or they aren’t able to connect.” Either way, the effect is the same: they are not showing up for you.