I Know Exactly How You Feel Right Now.
The obsessive thoughts that won't stop. The physical pain in your chest that no one else can see. The desperate need to understand why — why this happened, why they could move on, why you can't.
The mornings where you wake up and, for one blissful second, forget. And then it crashes back.
I know because I've lived it. Not in theory. Not from a textbook. On a kitchen floor, drunk and passed out, having just watched the woman I was supposed to marry kiss another man.
That was my rock bottom. And it became the best thing that ever happened to me.
My name is Eddie Corbano. I've spent the last 19 years helping people get through exactly what you're going through right now — and use it as the foundation for the most transformative chapter of their lives.
The Night Everything Collapsed — And Then Changed
In 2001, two weeks before our wedding, she left.
I won't dress that up. We had planned everything — the future, the life, the forever. And then, just like that, it was gone. She was gone. And I couldn't understand how someone who had said “yes” to spending their life with me could suddenly become a stone-cold stranger.
I did everything wrong. I begged. I called her 50 times a day. I showed up places I shouldn't have. I made every desperate, humiliating mistake a broken person can make — all while telling myself that if she could just understand how much I loved her, she would come back.
For almost a year, I put myself through a cycle of meetings and phone calls that always ended the same way: me wanting things back the way they were, and her rejecting me. Again and again.
Then came the night I finally saw her with someone else.
My world crashed.
I got drunk. I passed out on the kitchen floor of my apartment. I lay there in the silence — that specific, suffocating silence of a home that used to hold a future and now held nothing — not her, not me. Nothing.
I had to make a decision: did I want to live, or not?
Then the phone rang.
The One Sentence That Changed Everything
I have no idea how I managed to pick it up. On the other end was a distant relative I hadn't spoken to in years.
Why he called at that exact moment, I will never fully understand. Maybe help comes when we are finally ready to receive it.
He demanded to see me the next day. I went — mostly because I was out of options.
He had been through something far worse than me — betrayal, innocent jail time, circumstances I couldn't even imagine. And he had come out the other side whole. Happy. Free.
He told me one sentence:
“Your happiness is YOUR responsibility. And only yours. Your partner is not responsible for you finding fulfillment and happiness in life.”
Simple. Brutal. Exactly what I needed to hear.
I had handed my entire sense of self to another person — and when she left, she took it with her. I had to take it back. Not from her. From myself.
That realization put immense pressure on me. But for the first time in a year, I knew what I had to do.
The Ultimate Test — Going to Her Wedding
In the months that followed, I did the work. The painful, honest, uncomfortable work of looking at who I really was and why I kept ending up in the same place.
I had always felt like nobody truly understood me. I had accumulated years of codependency, low self-esteem, and patterns in relationships that guaranteed I would keep suffering — not because I was broken, but because I had never faced the deeper wounds I had been carrying since long before her.
Sound familiar?
The breakup forced me to strip all of that away. To find who I really was underneath all those accumulated layers. To become — for the first time — someone I was genuinely proud of, at any age.
The ultimate test came when my ex invited me to her wedding.
I went.
I walked up to the bridal couple, shook her hand, looked her in the eyes, and said: “I wish you all the best and all the love in the world.” And I meant every word.
I had the time of my life that night. I left with five phone numbers in my pocket.
That was my proof. Not revenge — transformation. The person who had collapsed on that kitchen floor was gone. In his place was someone I had chosen to become.
That kind of transformation doesn't have an age limit. I've seen it happen for people in their 40s, 50s, and 60s. In fact, I've often found that the people who do this work later in life go deeper — and come out stronger — than anyone.
Why I Started LovesAGame in 2007
After that, I couldn't keep what I had learned to myself. I started sharing it — first with friends, then with real clients. The results were consistent enough that I knew I had something worth building.
In 2007, I launched LovesAGame.com. What started as a blog became one of the most visited breakup recovery sites in the world, with over 27 million article views, a community of thousands, and a course that has helped people on six continents rebuild their lives after devastating breakups and divorces.
I attracted my wife, we welcomed twin daughters, and I wake up every day fulfilled by this work.
The breakup made all of it possible.
What I Can Do For You
I am not a therapist. I want to be honest about that. If you need clinical support, please seek it — there is no shame in that and I will always encourage it.
But if what you need is someone who has been through the worst of it, who has studied it obsessively for nearly two decades, and who has worked daily with real people in real pain — people just like you — then you're in the right place.
I will not tell you that time heals everything. Time doesn't heal. The right actions, taken with intention, heal.
I will tell you exactly what to do and what to avoid in your specific situation. No vague platitudes. No false hope. No pretending this isn't as hard as it is.
My approach is built on three stages:
1. Acceptance. The most overlooked step — and the most important. Many people subconsciously refuse to heal because healing feels like losing them permanently. We have to want to get better before anything else can work. This is where we start.
2. Physical Detox. The No Contact Rule — done correctly. 60 days to break the addiction to your ex, reclaim your power, and create the space you need to begin healing. I will help you get through it.
3. Emotional Detox. The deeper work. Reconnecting to your true self — the self that existed before this relationship defined you. Finding the hidden core pains that led you here. Rebuilding your self-worth from the inside out. Consciously disengaging — so you never end up in this place again.
The goal is not just to get over your ex. The goal is to become someone who doesn't need to.
Credentials & Recognition
- Founder of LovesAGame.com — online since 2007
- 19+ years working daily with breakup and divorce recovery
- 300+ articles with over 27 million total views
- Author of three bestselling books on breakup recovery
- Featured in: Washington Post, Huffington Post, Bustle, BravoTV, and more
- Magister Artium — academic background in humanities
- Thousands of clients and course students helped worldwide
What People Say
“He broke up with me via a short email to work out of the blue after over 10 years, and wouldn't answer phone calls or emails after. Six months on and I'm at 74%. You have made me feel seen and not feel like a crazy woman for feeling the way I did. I feel validated. You gave me comfort that most friends couldn't.”
— Katja
“On the darkest days your messages have brought a sliver of light. As you said so many times — this breakup happened for me. Thank you. Please keep going, the world needs more of you.”
— Eva
“I appreciate the sincere wish knowing you have already been here. I know you have hurt as well. That helps me most. You are not a person that only has book knowledge.”
— Marshall
“I was led on by other sites that said I'd get my ex back and it just fed me more and more false hope. With your emails it was like a friend reaching out and helping you to move on. I truly thank you.”
— Melanie
“Almost five years in from my relationship break-up — heart smashed into a million pieces — and I still look forward to your messages. You are a tower of strength and hope to us all.”
— Anonymous
Ready to Start?
The best first step is my free 15-lesson email course. It covers the most important foundations of breakup recovery and has helped thousands of people stop obsessing over their ex and start healing — regardless of how long they've been suffering or how impossible it feels right now.
Join the Free Course — Lesson #1 Arrives Today
Or if you're ready to go deeper, the Ex-DETOX Course is the complete system — everything I've learned in 19 years, structured into a proven step-by-step program.
Whatever you choose — know this: what you're feeling right now is not permanent. You will get through this. And you will be better for it.
I know because I've been exactly where you are.
— Eddie