We here at The Touchback have investigated several shysters peddling awful dating and relationship advice. To that end, coming across Max Jancar and his Breakup Recovery courses was a surprise. There were no false promises, fake reviews or videos claiming their contents were so sensitive that they may be taken down soon despite being up for years.
It was refreshing. So too is his honest, and, at times, blunt approach to topics like getting your ex back. Jancar isn’t here to get your hopes up or make you feel all warm and fuzzy. His goal is to help even if it means telling you things you don’t want to hear.
Unlike the other dating and relationship asshats we have covered, Jancar seems to genuinely care about people. He’s not a charity and does charge for his courses, but his goal isn’t entirely self-profit. This, of course, begs the question why the hell would he want to get involved in such a seedy, money-hungry industry like relationship advice?
While his competitors seem hellbent on getting as rich as possible as fast as possible, Jancar is driven by other factors, including his own breakup.
“The biggest moment of my life was my first breakup in 2015. The second biggest moment was when I realized that, after chasing my ex for almost a year, most of the ‘ex-back’ advice I followed was toxic and only made me miserable,” Jancar recalls. “As you’d expect, I developed a lot of trauma and shitty beliefs about myself and relationships from that period of my life. Long story short, one way of processing this trauma and overcoming my limiting beliefs was through blogging. So that’s the second reason I started writing about breakups because it was a form of personal therapy.”
There is another reason Jancar is committed to providing real assistance in a straightforward manner. He wants to clean up the industry after being on the wrong side of an advice scammer years ago.
“You see me bring up my industry’s alleged scammers, or as I call them, fake gurus, across many of my articles. I find great joy in this. To tie this reason with the previous one on why I do what I do, it’s therapeutic in a way,” Jancar details. “The same fake gurus I keep warning my readers about are the same fake gurus who scammed me out of my cash years ago. I know it sounds cringey as fuck, but, in a way, I feel I’m making the world a better place by doing this.”
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Breaking down breakup advice
There are two distinct subsects of the breakup advice industry: recovery and getting your ex back. Jancar believes each one is unique and draws different types of characters offering their own brand of instruction to heartbroken individuals.
“The breakup recovery sub-industry doesn’t have a lot of bad people—only really cringey and cheesy people. It’s the ‘get your ex back’ sub-industry where the bad people reside. Now, why is the ‘get your ex back’ sub-industry filled with so many scammers and unscrupulous characters, you ask?” Jancar muses. “Because the industry is full of naive and gullible simps and codependents, who are willing to butcher their identity and wreck their entire life to save their relationship and spend an ungodly amount of cash in the process—even though most of these people will just break up again shortly if they ever save it, or worse, stay in a relationship that makes them miserable.”
The main difference between Jancar and most breakup advice experts is a complete lack of bullshit. No gimmicks. No games. His approach is total honesty. He even jokes that his truthfulness will probably bite him in the ass at some point.
It’s important to note, this approach isn’t harsh or condescending. That, in and of itself, is somewhat amazing considering he deals with people like this on a regular basis. While some (*cough me *cough) might think these characters are morons, Jancar’s own experience gives him a different perspective.
“People going through a breakup are not necessarily stupid, although some can be. They are more naive and prone to making a lot of stupid decisions because their emotions and insecurities blind them. Which, in a way, is understandable, especially if a person had his first ever breakup,” he states.
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It won’t go down easy
Medicine is not delicious nor is it fun to take. However, it is the best way to get over an illness. In many ways, Jancar’s breakup courses are like taking cough syrup. They will help you feel better, but it won’t be easy going down.
That’s because they are dry. Like eating pretzels on the Sahara Desert at noon dry. There is no sizzle or entertainment. He simply presents a lecture on each topic as if he’s teaching a college course. It’s on you to stay focused and get through it all.
There are two courses available: one concentrated on moving on from your ex and another on getting your ex back. Each has its own set of topics and modules. Many end with an exercise or lesson you can take with you. Text and video are provided for them all. The term video is used loosely here as these are narrated slideshows.
As for the content, it’s pretty good if you can get past the presentation or lack thereof. The advice itself is sensible and grounded in both reality and practical exercises. Unlike some of the other programs we’ve come across, Jancar isn’t simply riffing or rewriting other articles on topics widely available online.
“The methodology is pretty simple. The Breakup Recovery Manual is essentially a workbook filled with a ton of practical and therapy-based (CBT primarily) exercises for, as the name implies, recovering from a breakup,” Jancar states. “The exercises are based not on focusing on what feels good or deluding yourself that you’re fine when you’re not, but simply on getting good at feeling bad—becoming more resilient in the face of adversity like a breakup.”
Interestingly, the courses aren’t some convoluted system where you have to do everything in an exact order to achieve a specific result. This technique is commonly used by other programs we’ve explored. It is almost always used by a seller to wash their hands of your failure. They’ll usually hit you with some nonsense along the lines of, “Well, you would have succeeded if you only remembered to do step five of part six in chapter four.”
What stands out about Jancar in all his content is that he is going to shoot straight with you no matter what. Look, it isn’t always engaging to read or watch. Quite frequently, it can be downright tedious. However, just like pouring that tablespoon of cough syrup down your throat, the process is secondary to the result.
It should be noted that both courses also come with access to a private community where Jancar interacts directly with clients and releases weekly videos answering questions from the community. This is free and not some hidden add-on you’ll be charged for a few days like The Scrambler.
Are the Breakup Recovery courses from Max Jancar worth buying?
Each course from Jancar costs $79.99. That is a lot of cash to pay for some dude to spit cold, hard truths at you. And as much as breakups suck, it’s difficult to definitively say you’re getting any value for money here.
However, the Breakup Recovery courses are legitimate programs created by someone who genuinely seems to care about the people he works with. In a world full of so-called experts shouting about how they will help you tame strange or control your ex’s mind in no time, Jancar delivers a real product with tangible information and exercises to reach your goal.
At the end of the day, all we can really say about buying the Breakup Recovery courses from Max Jancar is that it’s complicated. You can do a lot of cool stuff with $79.99. However, having the money doesn’t really matter if you’re miserable and thinking about your ex all the time. The only person who is able to solve this conundrum is you.
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