I flew from DC to Miami to spend time with a guy I was dating. After 2 days, he ghosted me.

• CP met a man while they were both on vacation in New Orleans. They decided to meet up again in Miami.
• On the second day of the trip, she said he ghosted her, so she shared her story online.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with CP. It has been edited for length and clarity.

Editor's note: CP's identity is known to Insider, but she requested her full name be kept private. Insider reached out to the man CP said she went to Miami with. He did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

When I went on a trip for my 30th birthday, I never expected to meet a man I'd end up flying to Miami for.

But a month later, I found myself doing just that. At first, everything seemed to be going great — until he unexpectedly ghosted me.

I posted about it on TikTok, assuming the bizarre story might be seen by a few hundred people, but before I knew it, I'd gone viral and was flooded with DMs from amateur sleuths trying to figure out the details or offering theories about the situation.

The whole thing was a blow to my confidence in dating, but it's also opened up new opportunities.

I thought we were having a great time until I realized he'd taken all his belongings and left

In June, I was visiting New Orleans with friends when a group of men approached us at a boat party and started making conversation. One of them paid particular attention to me and I initially felt like he was coming on a little too strong, but we were having fun and we ended up hanging out with them for the last couple of days of our trip.

After the vacation, he went home to Florida, and I went back to DC, where I live. We carried on talking, and the following month he came to visit. We spent two days together.

For our next meetup, he flew me to Miami and booked us into a hotel for three days. At first, we were having a great time; he seemed like a really nice guy. But on our second day, he told me he was going to meet up with a family member whom he hadn't seen in a long time.

After spending a while at the pool, I noticed he still hadn't come back yet. I texted to ask where he was, reminding him about our lunch reservations. No response. I went back to the room, but he wasn't there. I was getting annoyed, and I followed up in another message saying his behavior was disrespectful.

He responded a couple of hours later telling me he'd gotten some devastating news. I felt bad for him and I was worried — I like to see the best in people.

But as I was about to leave later that evening, I noticed that his stuff was gone. When I asked if he was OK, he sent a reply telling me he'd be fine. That was when I realized I'd been dumped.

It wasn't the end of the world, but it was still really disappointing that somebody thought it was appropriate to do it this way. We had talked all the time, day and night, for the two months that we knew each other. We'd be on the phone every day, sometimes for hours, and we'd text all day.

A few days later he texted me to say he owed me an apology. To me, it just felt frustrating.

I decided to share my experience on TikTok because I thought people would find it funny, but then it went viral

A couple of hours after I realized he wasn't coming back, I posted a video on TikTok sharing the story. I thought it would be funny, and I was only expecting it to get a few hundred views. But the video went viral and ended up getting over 3 million views, and people seemed invested.

I began receiving messages from people offering up information: one offered to look up the deed on his house, another said she thought she knew him and had had a similar experience, and told me she thought he was married.

A lot of people messaged me on TikTok guessing his last name saying they thought he was their husband or boyfriend. I remember thinking it must be hard not trusting your significant other to the point where you think this could have been him. A lot of people told me, "My husband was in Miami this weekend, and I just have a bad feeling."

I also received a lot of negative comments, and that annoyed me. People accused me of dating him while knowing he was in another relationship or married, which isn't true. A lot of people also told me to just move on because we'd only been on two dates. Other people said I was a stalker for figuring out so much information about him.

I spent a lot of time deleting the negative comments from the videos. My old coworkers and my old boss followed me, and I didn't want people in my network to see the negative comments people had written about me.

Finding out that my intuition had been so off about this guy was scary. I wouldn't classify myself as someone who has trust issues. But after that, I feel like moving forward, I'm going to be very hesitant about dating and believing what people say. At least I never really got sad about it, and I've since been able to laugh about it.

I don't regret posting the video. It's been kind of cool how people have been so invested in it, and I think it's opened a lot of opportunities — my TikTok account is getting tons of exposure from this and I now have over 23,000 followers, which has led companies to reach out to give me free products and offer brand deals.

I also want my full time job to be in the media and entertainment industry, so it was great to show that I can spark engagement. I'm thankful I didn't say anything too embarrassing.