--- title: Episode 65 Breakups episode_number: 65 era: early source_file: Episode 65 Breakups.mp3 audio_size_mb: 55.7 duration_sec: 1825.2 duration_min: 30.4 language: en provider: deepgram model: nova-3 diarized: true confidence: 0.993 transcribed_at: 2026-05-28T07:02:35Z--- # Episode 65 Breakups **Speaker 0:** Tom Torero podcast 65 from the glorious wonderfully developed luxurious Moldova the poorest country in Europe more borat than Kazakhstan actually to be honest this is very very former Soviet Union poor you could say gypsy poor so if you want to come here you've got to be ready for the likes of Ukraine or rural Russia or rural Romania, rural Bulgaria. It's pretty shocking. Plus it's 35 degrees. It's, the sweatiest daygame I've ever done. But the payoff is obviously hot birds. Hot birds that look Russian, that's from former Soviet Union days. Hot birds that obviously look Romanian, Roman, so a little bit Italian, a little bit Mediterranean, Balkan, so you could say a bit Croatian, bit Serbian. You've got a nice mix. Very small place, very like Odessa. Uni's out, we timed it a little bit wrong. But we are having success. Numbers have been fine, instant have been fine, dates have been coming in. But as ever in the Former Soviet Union, we wait for God to roll the dice for, fillets and, you know, real hotties. You got to give it time if you're doing fast trips in the Former Soviet Union then yeah you've given it to the daygame gods or you're doing long game. Anyway luckily I'm not here alone I'm with renowned London daygamer called Turkish. Alright, mate? Yes. What are you doing? Howdy doody. Thank God you're here because it's it's tough living. This is the first time you've seen the real kind of Chernobyl level Former Soviet Union. What do you make of this delightful Las Vegas paradise? **Speaker 1:** Yeah. I think it's great. I mean, you know, not not too great to look at externally in terms of environment, but the girls are just top quality. They're just top know, they dress well. They look after themselves. Not the sort of girls you would typically find in London, Oxford Street, but, you know, you know, you kinda see for yourself when you get here and see if, you know, see the But they they would be in London, but you'd just have to dig through thousands distractions. Yeah. It will take it will take a while to see, you know, to spot one hot girl in London. **Speaker 0:** But here, you would just find one every couple of minutes, you know. Oh, how jaded you are about London. Shame on you. All these guys will be going, no. There's loads of hot girls in London. There are. They're just buried in over 10,000,000 non hois but here is a high concentration and this was only your first day and you got loads of numbers and then we just took a pee break in McEdie's McDonald's for all you yanks we had a had a juice and it's quite funny by the way that McDonald's here is the most luxurious restaurant here because for the currency conversion it's really pricey for them so you see like couples on dates and macadies and it's pretty empty but we went in there and then we were sitting down and there was a nice Russian y kind of stunner, 19 years old, was she? Yeah. Is she? And she was sitting in a funny place surrounded by lots of people, but I said, go on, mate. And you went over and massive IOIs from her, big ice baz. **Speaker 1:** Pretty easy for you. Yeah. I was very surprised because, you know, to find that sort of get off, to find that sort of get on London, you would instantly just not be able to get closer because, you know, typically most guys, charity guys with money always just bombarded her with, like, offers for, you know, tables and high end nightclubs and another Should be a bit tainted. Yeah. A bit of a princess. Yeah. Exactly. So, you know, the fact that I saw her in McDonald's and she was so receptive to me, yeah, it was a breath of fresh air and, you know, it just it just gave me, like, a massive window of, like, like, potential of just how Yeah. Great countries like, you know, Moldova and Russia is and Ukraine. It's funny. For the hottest girls are in the shittest places. That's just the rule. You know? **Speaker 0:** But we've got a few days to go. We're gonna film some of the Borat like shenanigans. There's a lot of funny stuff going on. Everywhere you look, there's something to film. It's funny. Tomorrow, we're going to some caves in the middle of nowhere to drink wine and eat pies with some babushkas, some Russian grandmas. So what could go wrong? Basically, we're we're entrusting our lives to not even a taxi driver. It's just a random guy with an old Soviet larder. I can see Turkish is looking very confident about this. This might be the last podcast ever. Anyway, yeah, that's quite a good topic for the last podcast ever, quite possibly. The topic today is breakups. Just before that, just a reminder, one place left for Vancouver, Saturday August 6, 12 to 500% infield. It's the last place of this year for live street hustle daygame coaching. So Tom at tomtorero dot com. Alright. Breakups. You might break up with a girl. Well very likely if you're leading the player lifestyle and the girl's got a little bit too attached you give her the talk or you have to break up with her. Girl might break up with you especially pregame. You remember how that feels maybe you don't maybe you're 16 and you're just about to have this massive surge of hormones hitting you like a fucking truck so we'll talk about that what to do after a breakup the chemicals involved and how doing daygame how doing game how plate spinning affects this ton of emotions dropping on your head every so often which is very human, which is very normal. And you've gone for a breakup recently mate despite being a daygamer you know it doesn't matter how many notches you have how many lays you have happens to every daygamer and don't believe it if they say it doesn't a girl comes along and you go oh I'm to spend a bit of time with this girl and then that becomes three days, four days, five days she sleeps over, bang. Serious relationship. So what happened with the last lass? **Speaker 1:** Yeah. You know, a typical thing occurred. I just developed oneitis for her. I mean, it was me that actually broke up with her and, you know, one thing led to another and it developed into an f b sort of situation. Fuck, buddy. Yeah. Exactly. And yeah. And just eventually, I just opened up to her, which I shouldn't have done and that just completely fell apart. **Speaker 0:** You mean in your oneitis in your neediness, you as what do they call it in the books? You showed your complete vulnerability. Yes. Mean And that sounds lovely in books, but what happens when you showed your girl complete vulnerability? **Speaker 1:** She just she just lost complete attraction for me. And, you know, at that point, she was already seeing someone else anyway. So just adding that to the equation just made things even less attractive for her because obviously, you know, a high value guy naturally wouldn't do that. He would just move on and find someone else or do something else, In our case, spin more plays. But isn't it interesting proof that when the tables are turned and she did power of the push **Speaker 0:** vacuum on you and you know then what it feels like to be that girl. It's horrendous, isn't it? Like because it makes you want to chase. It triggers the cat and the string. We're not vulnerable to it. I mean, though we understand the whole concept of push pull and how it works, but it doesn't mean that you're exempt from it happening to ever happening to you because it does happen you know it's just natural it's just natural. Of course it's like even when you're waiting for a text and you she's not texting you back in normal day to day daygame it makes you jump doesn't it like oh yeah is she gonna text it's gonna text and it's it's classic. And when it happens to you, it's horrible. And how long had you been with her? Well, we're together officially for six months, then we broke up for a couple of months, then we got back together. So all in all about two years. Alright. It's a personal question. Lie on her. Did you cheat on her during those six months? No. Never. Never cheat on her. Jesus, man. You're a better man than me. Okay. Well, that was quite a serious relationship. And were you thinking at the time, okay. I've had my day game fun. I'm gonna be a good boy and this is gonna be the one. Yeah. I mean, I didn't really feel that way until **Speaker 1:** she left funnily enough, which is typical in most cases when a girl leaves and I select something being taken away from me and suddenly wanting it again, you know? Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, I kinda felt that way and, yeah, it was too late. Mhmm. So what can you really what can you do really? There's not really much you can do. Well, now here's the messy bit, and I would advise everybody to watch swingers. **Speaker 0:** I hope you've seen it by now. It's a classic play of film, Vince Vaughn, John Favrero, I think that's how you say it. The guy that's crying, and Vince Vaughn's trying to train him in the art of plate spinning, I e getting more gills, and he's crying, waiting for this gill to phone. And the film's pretty good for 90%. It's very true. And then at the end, what do you know? He gets another one eyed to skill and you know that it's going to end in a similar car crash. But Disney ending aside, what happened then for for the you went through the breakup and how did it affect you, you know, day to day and obviously your day game and because it's not a simple thing. These are big chemicals rushing through your body. Yeah. I mean, you know, in the beginning you don't you can't sleep, you can't eat much. **Speaker 1:** You know, anyone who's ever gone through a breakup, you kind of you better relate to me in in a lot of ways. Like, it's it's like a hello it's like a heroin addiction, isn't it? It's like you want more of it. It's like a it's like a rush of like, it's like an injection of **Speaker 0:** It's cold turkey. Yeah. It's cold turkey from Cold turkey. Withdrawal from the heroin. It's a oxytocin is what you're missing because when you pair bond with somebody, even a member of your family who passes away or a friend who passes away, you lose that pair bonding and you lose the oxytocin. And quite simply that has a very horrible feeling inside that everybody knows. If you've lost somebody, lost a friend, you've experienced a death in the family or even left your own country you just feel a loss and this doesn't last a couple of weeks does it? This is as **Speaker 1:** you said quite a lot of months. Yeah it takes a long time and one of the things that I kind of realised that the best way to kind of get away, get around it quickly is just just don't forget your hobbies, just take part in your daily activities, don't forget your your life, lead the active balanced life, kick the gym which is great for releasing endorphins in your body which has proven to get you in a good mood and just spinning plates just meeting more girls just having fun. Yeah. Because one thing that I kind of one of the reasons why I was so needy in the beginning before game was that I had I had scarcity, had lack of abundance and so knowing game in itself kind of helped me kind of get over it a lot quicker. **Speaker 0:** Yeah. That's the caveat that you will still experience this emotion. You cannot be immune from this emotion however many girls you sleep with and however long you're a player, even if you're a lifetime player. Every so often this one girl just pops up, takes you by surprise, blindsides you, and either you leave her and that still hurts, or she leaves you, that still hurts. But the great thing about game is that you don't need to watch swingers. You can just back on the horse and say okay I feel really shit. I mean a lot of times you just don't want to go out and game do you because when you go out and game what happens is that you compare all the girls to her, you feel like there's **Speaker 1:** a death in the back of your mind. It's like a void that you just can't seem to get rid of, like, whatever. Like, however many girls you kind of Yeah. Fuck. It's still there. That that bad feeling is still there. But eventually, it does fade away with time. Yeah. You know? But breaking the rules I mean, everybody's broken rules. And the classic breakup rule is, I mean, most people know it, if you're afraid to pick up, **Speaker 0:** a doctor will be able to tell you this rule. When you break up with someone or you break up with her or she breaks up with you, you have to cut contact. No joke. Right? No ifs, no buts. Social media has to be deleted, blocked because when you're drunk, you're lonely, especially in the evenings, when you're down, you're going to text her. Right? Or she's going to text you and if you keep this up, yeah, she comes over and you fuck and it's actually very good sex because of the drama but that just makes you feel even worse and she feels terrible then you get into this cycle of meeting and fucking and meeting and fucking and crying and drama and it's not like fun instigated drama by you, it's horrendous drama. But a doctor would say when you've cut your you know, you've got a cut, you stitch it up, and you do not touch it. You do not pick at the scab. Classic game advice is, yep, go through 10 other girls. So go like they say in swingers and you don't have to fuck 10 girls but go and at least talk to 10 girls daygame 10 girls date 10 girls kiss 10 girls sleep with 10 girls and then are you really gonna think about that girl And a lot of pickup artists have the rule no contact for two years. I would agree with that. My mate says a year I would say two years or at least until she's in another serious relationship maybe she's married with kids. I've met up with exes after a few years and you sit and you have a cough and you like laugh about it and go, oh my god, like, she's like my sister, you know? Do you remember that time when I was you know, was crying and you were crying, And there's not that temptation to fuck her. So one or two years is sounds like a long time, but it's not. Your horniness will go down. And by then, you'll have had a lot of other pretty younger girls. You know what I mean? But here's the but. If you break these rules, which everybody does at some point, you obviously get complications, you get drama. So you had a bit of drama with her or, you know, messages exchanged, things popping up, frame going between you and then her. **Speaker 1:** Yeah. It was it was really complicated and, you know, you know at that point anger kicked in and frustration and you know confusion. But you know eventually you just have to just you know it's it's it's a harder way of realizing that eventually you just have to pull the plug there's no other way around it. Yeah. If you want that oxytocin **Speaker 0:** loss to subside you know and you want to get new sources of oxytocin, new friendships, relationships yeah it's time. It's such an old stupid cliche but the first few months you really feel it and then there's that one day when you wake up you realize oh you're not even thinking about this anymore probably because you've just kicked another girl out or whatever so all the old cliches are true right what they don't tell you is or the first thing they don't tell you is how to break up with a girl if you are if you are a seducer, if you are a pickup artist. Now some of you will be saying well why are you in a relationship anyway if you're a seducer pickup artist? Well, as I said and I think as we said with Black Dragon, game is guys are not really in game for sex. There's the revelation. Guys are in game for affection. Right? We all love affection. Affection is love. You get it from your friends, get it from your family but you get it from girls. So let's say ideal player scenario, you have four, five girls, it's very open, everything's cool, jealousy develops of course, some fall off, but there's that odd girl who pops up, maybe one of the girls that you're seeing regularly and you let her stay over, you break that rule then she's twice a week then you think oh I'm gonna meet her sister then you meet her mom and it just gets cozy it just gets nice and before you know it despite all your background all your leads maybe you're not even one eye to see needy. You're just craving affection and what do you know? You're like shit. She's my girlfriend now. If you that old saying, if you see a girl more than three times a week, she's definitely your girlfriend right you can deny it but she is and then you think okay shit I have to give her the talk and then you delay the talk and you delay the talk and then it just goes deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper and either she fucks off as you know or you say right I'm gonna do it and this is what happened to me over New Year's actually last year I was seeing a girl for a long time actually almost a year first it was open then it was getting against my will more and more closed closed closed but I was falling into it I cheated on her 28 times, I think, something more. So awful. She knew what I did, but it this fueled it, you know, classic drama. When she realized about my bad behavior, she loved me more. Sick. Sick behavior. So I was all my friends, all my family, and my conscience said, Tom, sit down with her and tell her, stop being a pussy and do it. It's like putting a gun to a puppy's head. It's fucking horrible. So like you, I tried to do it, I think, in October, and we broke up for maybe two days and then she came over and we fucked amazing sex obviously for drama and we split up again maybe once or twice and then at New Year's Eve very symbolic so such a bad thing to do New Year's Eve we had a bit of a talk then and then the next day I said, right, gun to the head. And you have to sit down with her. Here are the rules. You have to do it in person. Don't do it over Facebook. Don't be a pussy. Do it in person. Right? She's gonna cry. So you have to let her cry. It's actually better if you let her cry because it gets out loads of shit. She might shout at you. She's gonna call you a dick, a player, a cheat, a bastard. She's gonna say you're gonna be lonely. She's gonna throw all of those like anti player things at you. She might taunt and you say oh just think of our marriage think of our future kids you're so selfish she's definitely going to call you selfish she's going to storm off and then you're going to have to press delete you know delete on whatsapp SMS Facebook delete her number don't even write it down and cheat just delete and why obviously it's self protection you're not picking at the scab but more importantly I really believe this now that girl has got a window of time especially in her later twenties. And the more time you you're wasting with her, dicking her around, you know, she's coming over. She's fucking you. You're shouting. She's coming over. She's fucking you. She's you're stopping at that girl having a quote unquote normal relationship. So I was very aware with this girl. I was like, look, I'm just wasting her time. She's told me she wants kids and a house and a relationship. I've told her I'm not gonna give her that for sure. She loves the bad boy, know, so bye bye. And it's a hard thing and it fucked me up for a few months but I chucked myself into game luckily. Chucked myself into travel. I chucked myself like you said into hobbies. I made sure I had friends around me and there's that day when you just yeah it's painful but you think I can deal with it and as you were saying as we were talking about earlier you can't escape this and every guy especially if you're only sixteen seventeen now you're gonna experience this every few years, every dozen or so girls one's gonna be special but the good news is every time you deal with this, **Speaker 1:** to gets to handle. It gets a lot easier. I mean when you're young everything is brand new, you know, it's fresh. And so obviously, when you do get broken up the first time, it's gonna be really, really painful. But, you know, as of anything, as time goes by and you develop more experiences with women, you start dating more of them, know, getting into more healthy relationships. You know, you're gonna break up eventually, but then you'll be better able to handle it. Yeah. You recognize the feelings and it's that **Speaker 0:** it's having the balls to give her the talk or it's having the balls to break up with her or let's say for some reason she does cheat and fuck off and disappear you are not left as you said stranded a) you can go out and plate spin which just means get leads and date other girls and b) I think this is really important you understand your body I don't understand why people don't know about these chemicals why they don't teach this to you in school you know they teach you about diet they should teach you like what sex high is right what a dopamine high or serotonin is it's pretty obvious Oxytocin, you can Google it, go and Google it now, it's called the cuddle hormone. Right? So when you're lying on the sofa with your bird that lovely feeling which is fucking lovely, right, is oxytocin. But get a puppy, right? It triggers exactly the same emotion. Hug your mum, Go on and give your mum a call. That will trigger oxytocin. Hug your male friend, that's right, in a non home away. That triggers oxytocin. Get a massage. This is interesting. Go and get a massage. No boys, not a happy ending. Go get a normal massage, not in Thailand and that triggers oxytocin. That's why that thing about you know hugging someone, cuddling someone, cuddling a dog. It's really really important so I think people misunderstand pickup and go must not love must not have affection must not show weakness. I am alpha two d alpha. No, no, no, no. Life is like life is lovely. Life is about love but love doesn't mean one person forever one it is crying. That's a love that's been sold to you through movies in the last hundred two hundred years. It's quite possible to love many things many people you know so splitting up with somebody yeah you're you're lacking affection but then you need to get that affection from somewhere else let's bring it back how long we got yeah we got ten minutes so let's bring it back to your life before game, and I'll tell some needy stories as well. Can you remember some real chodey things you did to chase girls, get them back, like crying, **Speaker 1:** buying them shit? But come on, every guy listening has these stories. I used to have really bad attachment issues like I used to just get too needy too quickly like I would meet like you know it'd take me a long time to meet a girl and then when I would meet one eventually I would just get attached so quickly you know it's like you know typical showy thing like I would just like text her a lot, know, tell her I loved her even though we weren't even having sex, know, just those usual like crazy like shady things. Yeah. Yeah. Mean, you know, it's just it was a typical kind of thing that would happen over and over and over again. I just couldn't understand why, you know, I just could not break it down and and and see the mistakes that I was making. It wasn't until I learned game, ironically, that that that it taught me frame and frame control and how how to be, you know, emotionally balanced and, you know, spinning plates and meeting like like, you know, you saying earlier about one not being like, one one being an evil number, like, one is better than zero or something like that. One is too close to none. That's a pimp thing. **Speaker 0:** I suppose yeah I wasn't going to talk about it today but I've been rereading iceberg slim you know pimp looking at you can look at some pimp documentaries online and sure I'm not saying become a pimp as I say in street hustle but pimps really have an understanding of frame and one being too close to none, abundance, plate spinning, frame as I've already said so they're not going through these one it is issues because when one's gone another one's in and their source of affection a pimp has this harem like in some religions when you can have affection from multiple sources so if one of them left you would naturally feel it less because you just go around to the next girl. Right? Like a Mormon marriage. And there's that famous quote in game which everybody should tattoo onto somewhere visible which says, the person who needs the other the least has all the power that sounds like a simple sentence but that sums up all a frame in one sentence the person who needs the other the least has all the power I can't remember the PUA source of that I think it's Tyler in the original blueprint but anyway it's a golden sentence so the minute you realize that she has the power or the minute you realize you start saying things like I need her I need to get her back you know what a guy is typing into Google how to get her back can't you see from that sentence that that's breaking that rule you lost the frame and here's the sick thing that you know I was saying to you I don't really want to say on a podcast because it's like fucking tough love and guys listening it just makes you feel sick right but once you've lost the frame in in this kind of situation you can't get it back we were talking about this earlier that technically yeah you could go down the gym earn shitloads more money probably go out with five of younger hotter girls and she would get jealous and she would come back but how long would that frame last until you went back to your buying flowers old self so when the frame's fucked it's far better to go and wipe the slate clean, go to another girl, learn from it, take back the masculine, try again. But as soon as you sense something dodgy, guys are thinking how do I change it? How do I change it? How can I change it? It's very fucking hard, I'd say. And if you're in the process of trying to get her back, you're automatically **Speaker 1:** doing something wrong. Yeah, I think there's I mean, we quoted David Day though earlier, didn't we? And there was a really great chapter in the book where he said like, where he says, no, Woman should never be your first priority. It should always be your mission. And that is so profound. It was so important. I love that book and I hate it. I mean, it's one of my least favorite pickup books, to be honest. And I dislike Yeah. That's that's probably the only chapter I liked, to be honest. Because the thing is like it kind of makes sense in a way in the sense that you know we talk about oneitis and the thing is like **Speaker 0:** it kind of helps you focus on other things like more than the girls, it kind of keeps you in control. Yeah, he's saying saying don't make women your mission Exactly. Which is very true. But he's also in the same book or I think I think it's Way of Superior Man. He's talking about I could be wrong. I think it's no. I think this is Mark Manson, Models. Maybe I'm having a go at the wrong book. But there's one book I think it's Models where he's talking about vulnerability, opening yourself up completely, the best thing is honesty. Now that sounds lovely. It is the right thing to do ethically, morally, spiritually but biologically if the lion opens himself up to another lion he's fucked. Yeah he's open to attack and you know. Yeah you just can't you should read you know Green's Power. Now however dark triad that is there's basic things and that's not to say you can't cry or you can't ever show any weakness that's two d alpha but yeah if you completely give her the frame at some point and she goes off and fucks another guy and then you bring it let her come back no that's it's gone and if if she's seen a big period of neediness from you, if she's seen you chasing, as you mentioned, she knows she knows that you're not really. You haven't got the frame in. Even if she's not thinking about this consciously, her her pussy is telling her that this guy ain't alpha. Can't be. Why would he be chasing? I thought this guy could get any girl. No. Something's not right here. And she's not thinking that. She just feels that. And this is why women are repulsed by guys doing the chase thing. It really turns women off. A Ukrainian girl recently said to me I said, when do you lose attraction for a guy? Like, why do you break up with all these guys? Because the guy she was telling me about all sounded pretty decent, like, loaded, rich, you know, just solid guys, not just about money, but well rounded older guys that she loves. She said the moment I smell that they need me more than I need them. She goes, like, overnight, it just all goes. Yeah. And she feels disgusted by it. And it I it makes me think of a story when I was at university and I broke up with no. Gil definitely broke up with me. I was gonna say I broke up with Gil. I'll be so lucky. And I was crying on the phone and it was pathetic and my mom had to, like, snatch the phone off me because I was just phoning her and crying and then she wouldn't pick up. Then her brother was calling saying, don't phone her. And I thought right I'm just gonna get a car and drive up to near Manchester and I'm gonna knock on her door and get it back and my dad was looking at me like what the fuck are you doing and he said don't don't get in the car it's like the best thing to do is to not call her and she'll come back Yeah. It's always a counterintrusive thing to do. But I got in the car and I drove I drove for hours and hours and I turned up and I stood in her garden and it was raining and I knocked on the door and, well, you know, they were laughing at me from the window. Then her brother came out and told me to f off. F off. Yeah. So pathetic and that's how you learn so even if you're listening to this podcast and you go yeah yeah I know all that **Speaker 1:** and you're 18 years old you know it's gonna come. It's easy to say that when you're not in love or when you're not emotionally like when you got when you haven't got like a wash of toasting in your body and you just, you know, got that feeling inside you. But when you're not feeling it, it's just logically it just makes sense. Don't do it. Yeah. But It's useful to write some of these rules down or create your own list. And during that breakup, **Speaker 0:** I I've still got it on my computer. I've got a document and it's just called yes, no. And it's two columns. And in the yes side, there's all the nice things about that the relationship and that girl I was in. And on the no side, it's all the logical, rational things I know, you know, why it wasn't working, why I like other girls, what these things are, what I should do. And the no list is huge. Massive. So anytime I'm feeling super chodey, like to the point of, I wanna call her, man. I just wanna call her. Open the document, look at it and go, calm down. Yeah. Special girl. Right? It was a lovely time. The cost you pay, as we said yesterday, think the cost you pay for that lovely year is, yeah, a few months of feeling a bit shit. But that is the cost of any any relationship, you know. And you feel that when somebody dies, it's very painful, but you think of, wow, all the good stuff that you had, that is the yin and the yang, you know? Yeah. **Speaker 1:** I mean, you know, just enjoy it while it lasts. And when it does end, just, you know, just thank thank the opportunity of, you know, being with that girl and just move on. You know? There's always gonna be other opportunities. **Speaker 0:** Yeah. Plenty more fish in the sea. So all the cliches are pretty much true. There you go. That was podcast 65 on breakups. Exactly thirty minutes. The next podcast will be from London, I think, or back in Central Europe but until then cheers Turkish I'll see you back in London yeah take care