Here’s how you know someone is avoiding you

29 Sept 2026 · 1 min
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In this short monologue, Brendan Kane explains how to recognize when someone is deliberately avoiding you, using a quote from Steve Maraboli that people reveal your priority through the effort they make. He outlines concrete signs of avoidance: taking days to answer while being active elsewhere, canceling plans without offering a new time, giving shorter, colder, and more forced replies, stopping initiative, and only re‑appearing when it benefits them. Kane stresses that a consistent pattern of these behaviors indicates low priority, and advises that if you must constantly chase their attention, you should stop giving them the benefit of the doubt and reconsider the relationship.

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