The heartbreak and relationship repair industry is booming. But do these online services really work?

Coach Lee Wilson runs MyExBackCoach.com, a relationship recovery service he founded after getting his start in marriage enrichment counseling. He says he got his started helping people going through breakups like most do: one of his friends needed help. 

“He told me what was going on and that she had broken up with him, Wilson said. “And I said, ‘well what have you done so far? ‘And he said ‘well I called, and I got her voicemail’ and he said, ‘it hurt so bad that she didn’t pick up, all I could do was cry into her voicemail.’ And he said ‘what should I do?” and I said well not that.” 

Wilson was able to get his friend through the breakup and eventually, the couple got back together. Now with over 20 years of experience in the industry, he said he has seen people cope with pain differently. 

 “A woman was really upset because her ex-boyfriend who had broken up with her would not talk to her,” Wilson said. “And she went over, she still had a key to his place, I don’t know if it was an apartment or a house. And she got his cat and she left a note and she said ‘if you want to see your cat, come talk to me and you can see your cat.'” 

 “She asked me if I thought she had blown it and I said ‘yes!.’”