Saskatchewan Centennial

Music is the trigger that brings many people to their knees after their relationship has broken up.  Everywhere they go the “special song” from their time together seems to be playing from every car window and in every elevator.  It is like Chinese water torture.

This is just one of many classic symptoms of a broken heart, along with seeing the ex everywhere in crowds, in shops, in the distance, only to have it turn out to be some stranger.  Another symptom may be loss of appetite, or drinking too much, a simple inability to stop crying, jumping up every time the phone rings, checking your e-mail and cellphone very 20 seconds…  People in this situation do go through real suffering, sometimes to the point where it starts to affect their health, their career and their social life.  Friendships may also be disrupted because friends may take sides, feel embarrassed at meeting the person when they are also socializing with the ex or just not have patience or sympathy.  People going through a relationship break-up can try their friends’ patience with constant crying, moaning, calls late at night, and even requests to spy on the ex and report whether he or she is seeing someone new.

For $39, the e-book The Magic of Making Up promises to help not only with these symptoms, but to bring about reconciliation with the ex if certain rules and instructions are followed.  Author T. W. Jackson warns that his methods are unconventional and may seem counterintuitive.  But if the customer trusts him and follows the letter of the instructions, they have a very good chance of mending their romance and getting their ex back permanently.

As the first instruction Jackson gives is to agree with the partner who is walking out the door that a break-up is necessary, this will take some nerve, but there is sound psychology in the advice.  All humans want what they can’t have, says Jackson, so making yourself less available will be more effective than phoning or e-mailing your ex, crying and pleading for them to come back.

If you stay away from your ex for at least a month, don’t phone or e-mail, don’t send messages through friends, and don’t try to make her jealous by seeing other people, then there’s a good chance she will be intrigued.  And if you firmly agree with her about the break-up, you are making her confront her own decision to leave and giving her no route back.  This will make her think again, says Jackson.

This is not natural behavior of anyone who has lost their love, but reviews and blogs across the Internet all vouch for its effectiveness in hundreds of cases.