I actually had a friend ghost me for more than a year even though we lived in the same town (<50k people, so not even a huge town). He knew what I normally did

I actually had a friend ghost me for more than a year even though we lived in the same town (<50k people, so not even a huge town). He knew what I normally did well enough just not to be in those places, and I genuinely thought he had moved away or something. I was totally confused when he reached out later telling me it had been on purpose and about issues between us that I hadn't even known were a problem.