I have come to realize that I understood the dating game to be a broken system from an early age and decided to just "not play" and focus on myself.

So fast forward to 23 and having had entered my second relationship ever, there was not much I knew; however, when I received the relationship status notification from her on FB, I noticed it never garnered any likes or comments like "WHO IS HE!?". This seemed very strange considering this girl was/is very popular and it did indeed set the tone in my head that "is real?".

I started to think that she hid her relationship status from everyone, but me (yes you can do this, don't even argue the paranoia, I just figured out how to do it today in 2 seconds).

Fast forward to now. Her relationship status went from single to now non-existent. She's doing the same thing with guy she left me for (who is her ex that she dated for a month who was dumb enough to take her back).

Lessons learned

I have never come across or ever even HEARD of such a situation before. I just want you guys to be aware. It's a mind fuck. She will make you seem crazy and you will go full on Truman Show when you begin to put pieces together.

TL;DR: Girls can hide their relationship status from everyone except you and fake a relationship.