When someone ghosts you and starts giving you attention again....

I have an on-and-off chat friend of some 30 years. I cannot count the number of times she has abruptly disappeared only to return a month, two months, a year later as if nothing had occurred. I have grown to accept it. I suspect she may be bi-polar and I only exist to her in one or the other swings. Latest example: I hadn't heard from her in nearly a decade despite an occasional reach out to nudge a response. When doing my annual holiday letter I decided, what the hey, I'll shoot a copy to her and if I get no response it will be time to finally delete her from my contact list. I got an immediate response about how lovely it was to hear from "her ghost"(!); that she had been thinking about me, and trying to find me. I responded immediately. . . .and have not gotten a single word since.

Protect your heart.

I don't know what to say...

They have already showed you how they want and expect to be treated. Give them what they ask for