Textual Healing: Breakup Breakfast

Summary

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Episode Overview

Podcast: Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Episode Title: Textual Healing: Breakup Breakfast
Date: June 4, 2026

In this witty and dynamic episode, the "Brooke and Jeffrey" team holds a special "Textual Healing" segment, focused on a comedic, tangled breakup situation. Listener Maria seeks help navigating a pre-scheduled breakup with her boyfriend James, which becomes complicated when she wants to move the date—so she can go out with someone new she met at her mother's wedding. The episode is packed with banter about "modern relationships," lighthearted advice, and live texting drama revealing both the complexity and humor in contemporary dating.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Modern Dating Landscape

• Jeffrey sets the stage with a rundown of today’s "relationship categories": casual companionship, situationship, "monogam-ish", and marriage.
  • Jeffrey [03:44]: “The modern dating world has so many different levels of relationships... it really depends on what you want.”
  • Brooke [04:18] (tongue-in-cheek): “Mine’s just marriage. It’s an old word. Like retro.”

2. Maria’s Dilemma: A Pre-Scheduled Breakup

• Maria recounts her situation: After six months with James, she knew he wasn’t “the one,” and they mutually agreed to break up—after her mom’s wedding, because James was already invited.
• They scheduled their breakup for two weeks post-wedding, aiming to keep things drama-free.
  • Maria [05:50]: “It’s not a relationship that I ever saw getting too serious... he's a good guy, but when I picture my future husband, it's just not him.”
• During the wedding, Maria meets someone new—the only problem: the only free day for the date is before the planned breakup with James.

3. Seeking a Graceful Exit

• Maria worries about hurting James, who “likes her more.”
• The hosts debate if this is “technically cheating”—ultimately agreeing it isn’t, since the breakup is pending and open.
• Brooke asks if they’re still acting “like boyfriend and girlfriend”; Maria says yes.

4. Textual Healing: Editing the Breakup Date

• Maria requests help crafting a text to move up the breakup by one day.
• Jeffrey suggests a direct yet vague approach:
  • Jeffrey [10:29]: “I’m so, so sorry, but my plans have changed... I can’t make our breakfast. Sad emoji.”
• Maria composes and sends a text, fabricating an “out of town” excuse and naming their “breakup breakfast.”

5. James’ Unexpected Response

• James replies playfully, sending a picture of "Macaulay Culkin's shocked face" (from Home Alone) and the message:
  • James, via Maria [14:40]: "Reactivating my Tinder as we speak ✨"
• Maria reveals this is a shared inside joke—they planned to “reactivate Tinder at the same time” after breaking up.

6. Maria’s Second Thoughts & Emotional Ping-Pong

• The response makes Maria nostalgic and second-guess the breakup:
  • Maria [18:14]: “I think I’m starting to have feelings for him more than...”
• The hosts warn her about indecisiveness and “stringing him along.”
• Ultimately, Maria decides to backtrack, texting that she wants to enjoy the last few days before breaking up as originally planned.

7. The Power Flip

• James swiftly closes the loop, showing he’s emotionally moved on—sending a screenshot of his Tinder profile:
  • Maria [19:54]: “He said 'too late' and sent a screenshot of his Tinder bio. He already restarted it.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On breakup categories:

  • Brooke [04:18]: “Mine’s just marriage. It’s an old word. Like retro.”

• On the difficulty of clean breakups:

  • Brooke [18:23]: “You’re just stringing him along, and then you’re going to actually hurt his feelings. Like, this is a graceful way to do this.”

• Maria, midst texting indecision:

  • Maria [18:10]: “I didn’t send anything. I think I’m starting to have feelings for him more than...”

• James’ power move via text:

  • Maria [19:54]: “He said ‘too late’ and sent a screenshot of his Tinder bio. He already restarted it.”

• Brooke’s reaction to modern dating habits:

  • Brooke [20:14]: “Have fun with the new guy, Maria. Yeah, I guess.”

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Important Segment Timestamps

• [02:45] Show proper begins ("Textual Healing" segment introduced)
• [05:34] Maria joins the show and explains her situation
• [06:00-09:02] Maria and hosts unpack her scheduled breakup and new crush
• [10:06-12:36] Live crafting and sending of the breakup-reschedule text
• [14:34-15:25] James responds—comedic and kind, using inside jokes
• [16:58-19:54] Maria’s indecision and final, “too late” response from James

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Episode Flow & Tone

Throughout the episode, the hosts maintain their trademark playful, irreverent style. The tone is casual, with advice doled out in a good-natured, teasing way. There’s never judgment—only empathy and laughter about the sometimes-awkward realities of dating in the digital age.
The group jokes about how everyone needs a “scheduled breakup,” while also highlighting how even the cleanest breakups can get unexpectedly messy emotionally.

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Listener Takeaways

• Texting is both a blessing and a curse in relationships—what feels like the “clean” way out can lead to new confusion.
• Scheduled breakups are possible (and even fun) with the right communication and a shared sense of humor.
• Feelings can surface at surprising moments, prompting second thoughts—but clarity (and boundaries) are ultimately healthiest for both partners.
• Empowering the other person to make the final call can provide closure—and sometimes flip the emotional script.

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Closing Thoughts

Brooke [17:44]: “This is actually, like, I feel like a really good example of how we all should handle breakups.”
Jeffrey [20:24, joking]: “Enjoy trying to rematch with your ex-boyfriend on Tinder.”

Maria’s “breakup breakfast” became more than a quirky dating footnote—it exposed the soft spots, humor, and twists that come with modern relationships. The episode is both a masterclass in gentle, honest communication and a reminder that, in love and breakups, nothing ever goes 100% to plan.

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End of Summary

Transcript

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[Brooke]

All right, we got a new episode for you today and it is a textual healing. That's where somebody needs help with a texting situation and well, that's where we step in.

[Co-host 1]

Yes. And we don't get to do these that often, but I know when we don't.

[Brooke]

We don't. But they're fun. But first we gotta talk about Costco. Costco guy yesterday. Executive members only.

[Co-host 1]

Yeah, people are not a fan of executive members only guy. Someone said. Well, actually, is this too bad to read? Maybe not. She was exposed to too much Costco gasoline as a kid. That one. Oh my goodness, what a judgmental snob. She could do much better. Sounds like a guy who thinks he is self made with a silver spoon up his butt. Oh my goodness. And then somebody else who said, I was waiting for Kai to be in on it with the LARPers.

[Brooke]

LOL. Yeah, I could see that. Maybe that'd be good for him. Yeah, he needs to put his energy somewhere else.

[Co-host 1]

He needs to get into a little larping.

[Brooke]

Yeah, a little live action role play might fix Kai. All right, well, we'll see how you feel about today's episode. Right now.

[Jeffrey]

The modern dating world has so many different levels of relationships that you can be in and it really depends on what you want.

[Co-host 3]

You're actually right. There's like categories now.

[Brooke]

Something for everybody out there.

[Jeffrey]

Yeah, it's kind of nice because there's, you know, a casual companionship where you hang out, but it's not romantic. A situationship where it's romantic but it's not committed. A monogamish where it's committed but not serious.

[Brooke]

Ish.

[Co-host 3]

And then I heard that one.

[Jeffrey]

What word would you describe your situation, Brooke?

[Brooke]

Mine's just marriage.

[Jeffrey]

Wow. Don't say it too romantically. Sounds so hyped up.

[Brooke]

Yeah, it is.

[Co-host 1]

It's.

[Brooke]

It's an old word like retro.

[Jeffrey]

But one of our listeners is caught in a different type of complicated entanglement and she's hoping that we can help uncomplicate it.

[Co-host 3]

I hope it's not as complicated as Brooks.

[Brooke]

I know.

[Co-host 2]

I don't know.

[Brooke]

Very good luck layers here.

[Jeffrey]

And she wants to do it in the weirdest way possible. She's asked for our help. You're going to hear it right after this. How many times on this show have listeners asked us to help them break up with their significant others?

[Brooke]

Oh, no.

[Co-host 2]

Okay.

[Jeffrey]

Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning. That's why we created an entire segment called Brooke breaks you up.

[Brooke]

Yay.

[Co-host 2]

Brook segment.

[Brooke]

I am not in the head space for this today, Jeff. Well, ready?

[Jeffrey]

Here's the good news, Brooke. Yeah, you don't have to do that today.

[Brooke]

Oh, good.

[Jeffrey]

Cuz this couple has already had the breakup talk.

[Brooke]

Oh, good.

[Jeffrey]

And I guess the issue is, the problem is the breakup isn't happening fast enough.

[Co-host 1]

What?

[Brooke]

Does the breakup happen right after the talk?

[Jeffrey]

I don't. That's what I think this listener is saying in her email. But before I confuse my co host any further, let's just talk to Maria about it. Maria, welcome to the show.

[Maria]

Hey, how are you guys?

[Brooke]

You sound chipper for a lady who may or may not be in a relationship. Very big.

[Jeffrey]

We've officially confused everybody in the room. Maria, so what's the situation that you're in with this guy that you're dating or. Or not dating? What's going on?

[Maria]

Okay, so I started dating this guy like 6 months ago. His name is James.

[Brooke]

James.

[Jeffrey]

Okay.

[Brooke]

Okay.

[Jeffrey]

And what's the situation with James?

[Maria]

Well, I do really like spending time with him. He's a good guy, but it's just. It's not a relationship that I ever kind of saw getting too serious. Like when I picture my future husband, it's just not him.

[Brooke]

Okay, but why? Why isn't it him?

[Maria]

I don't know. It's just like they say, like, when you know, you know. But also you know, when you know that it's.

[Brooke]

That's fair. That's fair. Like, this spark isn't quite right. It has nothing to do with who he is as a person. It's just not okay.

[Co-host 3]

And it kind of hurts. But at least you're being honest.

[Jeffrey]

Have you been honest with him? That he's not husband material for you?

[Brooke]

Oh, we don't need to say it that way.

[Co-host 3]

Yeah, I don't think she told him.

[Brooke]

I hope you're not doing the breakup.

[Jeffrey]

How honest are we being with James?

[Maria]

I mean, a couple months into us dating, I could kind of tell that he was more into me than I was into him. And so I basically told him, like, hey, I'm having fun with you, but I just don't know if we should continue what's going on between the two of us.

[Brooke]

And so what was his response to that?

[Maria]

He honestly, he took it really well. He joked. He was kind of joking back, like, well, if you want to break up with me, you can't do it until your mom's wedding because you already invited me.

[Brooke]

Oh, okay. Do you mind bringing him to your mom's wedding?

[Maria]

Honestly, no. Like, we Kind of came up with a solution is that we'll do the wedding, but we're gonna have a scheduled breakup date.

[Brooke]

Okay.

[Jeffrey]

After your mom's wedding or in the middle of your mom's wedding.

[Brooke]

That's really cordial. Like, it's kind of cool.

[Co-host 3]

Yeah.

[Jeffrey]

So the wedding is coming up or it already happened.

[Maria]

Yeah, it. So it just happened.

[Co-host 3]

And congrats to your mom.

[Co-host 1]

So it's go time. End time.

[Maria]

So that's the thing, is that we decided that it would be two weeks after the wedding.

[Brooke]

What?

[Jeffrey]

Okay, just to wind it down a little bit after, like, the joy of the wedding.

[Brooke]

Or maybe not to make it look like it was your mom's fault that you're breaking up.

[Jeffrey]

Oh, fair.

[Maria]

Yeah, we. I mean, we just didn't want to do it, like, directly after. And honestly, like, we had a great time. We had a good run, and I wasn't stressing about it. But then a funny thing happened while we were at the wedding. James was off eating and talking with family and stuff like that, and I ended up meeting another guy.

[Brooke]

Oh, at your mom's wedding?

[Co-host 1]

Wow.

[Brooke]

Maybe the new stepdad's got some hotties.

[Maria]

No, it's nothing weird. It's nothing weird. It's not like a stepbrother or anything like that. He's friends with my new stepdad's family. And, you know, it was really cute. It was sweet. Like, we had instant chemistry and he asked me out. Cute. It was. It was really cute. But the only thing is, is he's gonna be leaving town soon, and the only day that he can meet up is the day before our scheduled breakup. Oh.

[Brooke]

So you just need to change the date of the breakup.

[Co-host 3]

Wait, if you guys already know you're going to break up if you go on a date with some. That's not cheating. You guys are done. Right.

[Jeffrey]

But remember, this guy likes her more than she likes him, so it's gonna affect him differently.

[Co-host 3]

So she's still thinking of his feelings

[Brooke]

at the end of it. It sounds like you just want to keep it clean.

[Maria]

Yeah.

[Brooke]

Right.

[Maria]

Yeah. Well, I also really appreciated him being so cool about everything and still wanting to go to the wedding and all that. Like, it's already a weird situation. I'm trying to just do it the best way that I can.

[Brooke]

Can I ask, Are you guys acting like boyfriend and girlfriend right now?

[Maria]

I mean, well, we're still technically together, so. Yeah.

[Jeffrey]

Okay, but we're not doing Brooke breaks you up. Instead, what she's requested is some textual healing on our behalf to text her current guy, James, and ask him to push up the date of the breakup.

[Maria]

Yeah, I just. I want to move it up by one day.

[Brooke]

Oh. You know, this is the first time I feel like the breakup conversation via text is allowed because you've had so many breakup conversations.

[Co-host 3]

But what if he has something planned? Like there's a last date meal.

[Jeffrey]

Like, you know, do you have anything planned like that special?

[Maria]

The plan for us was to kind of do breakfast together at the same diner where we first met.

[Brooke]

Oh, full circle.

[Jeffrey]

Oh, wow.

[Co-host 3]

You guys are, like, so poetic about this.

[Co-host 1]

I know. I feel like a text breakup might just be better at this point.

[Brooke]

So how do we start the conversation?

[Jeffrey]

Well, what if you be direct with him but also unavailable at the same time?

[Brooke]

That sounds passive and aggressive.

[Co-host 3]

How do you do that?

[Jeffrey]

Yes. That's the perfect sweet spot that we're going for. So if I'm you, I want to put it in their court and let them make the final decision on how to proceed, which is so Jeffrey.

[Brooke]

No one understands.

[Jeffrey]

And my life has worked out.

[Maria]

Hates making a decision.

[Jeffrey]

My wife worked pretty good, I would say. Listen, I'm so, so sorry, but my plans have changed and I have a conflict on that day. And I'm not going to be able to make our breakfast. Sad emoji. That way you are owning like, it's my fault, but that day doesn't work. And then you see what he wants to do with it.

[Co-host 1]

He likes you so much. I'm scared he's going to push it a year out.

[Brooke]

I think it's a terrible text to send, but just for experiment reasons.

[Jeffrey]

And Brooke loves experimentation, so let's try.

[Brooke]

There we go.

[Maria]

Yeah. Okay. I like that. Let me kind of write it out and see.

[Jeffrey]

Make it sound like you're upset. Like, hi, I'm so, so sorry to do this, but my plans have suddenly changed. I can't make our breakup breakfast.

[Brooke]

Oh, we're going to call it the breakup breakfast.

[Jeffrey]

Well, whatever you want to call it.

[Co-host 3]

Jeez.

[Maria]

Okay.

[Jeffrey]

And then put sad emojis. Like, you really were looking forward to that.

[Brooke]

God, it feels so bad because something else is more important than breaking up.

[Co-host 3]

I know. That's what I'm like. He's going to ask what could be more important.

[Jeffrey]

I'm just going off of what we know about this guy and his personality, and he was cool with the whole concept of a breakup date, so.

[Co-host 3]

Oh, you know what?

[Jeffrey]

He might not be, as the woman

[Co-host 1]

doesn't like him, and he'd still go hang out with her for three More months.

[Brooke]

This guy, I mean, he's.

[Jeffrey]

Go with the flow.

[Brooke]

He could be a guy like Jeffrey that likes others to make the decision.

[Co-host 3]

Yeah, you just tell me how my life.

[Co-host 2]

Exactly.

[Jeffrey]

So, Maria, you make the final choice here. What do you want to do? I don't want to be responsible.

[Maria]

Okay, I'm gonna say hi. I'm so sorry, but my plans have changed this week.

[Jeffrey]

I had a comment.

[Maria]

I'm going to be camping on Saturday.

[Brooke]

Oh, you're just going to make up the lie right now?

[Jeffrey]

I would be less

[Maria]

camping just so that way I'm out of town.

[Brooke]

Yeah, that's right.

[Co-host 1]

No service.

[Jeffrey]

Well, you can just say I'm out of town.

[Co-host 3]

Why can't you make up a plan that you have to go to out of town?

[Brooke]

Because he would be the date.

[Maria]

Okay, I'm just gonna say. I'll just say that I'm out of town. I think that's good.

[Co-host 3]

There you go.

[Brooke]

Oh, my God. Send the text message and.

[Maria]

Okay. Okay. I sent it and I put at the end, I put the I can't make our planned breakup breakfast. And I did put the sad emoji.

[Brooke]

Okay.

[Jeffrey]

There you go.

[Brooke]

It's like, are you sad because of the breakup or are you sad because you can't make it?

[Jeffrey]

Well, whatever happens, it's on you 100%. I take no responsibility. Yeah. Then when we come back, we will see if your soon to be ex boyfriend has responded as we continue Textual Healing Breakfast Breakup Edition. And it's coming up right after this.

[Brooke]

Good music choice.

[Jeffrey]

Oh, yeah. We're in the middle of Textual Healing with our listener Maria, who's been dating a guy for almost six months now and realized just a little while in that this isn't going to be forever.

[Brooke]

Yeah. So which is okay. Doesn't mean it's bad. Yeah, not a forever thing.

[Jeffrey]

Totally. So they made the choice, you know, since her mom was getting remarried, why not extend their relationship just a little bit longer and came up with a breakup date.

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Yep.

[Jeffrey]

Which is a specific day on the calendar when they both agreed the relationship would officially end. The only problem is a new love interest has suddenly resurfaced for Maria. So she's come to us wondering how can she text her current guy James to let him know I actually need to move up our breakup date. Without being too specific about why.

[Brooke]

Without saying, I found another guy who's super hot and I'm really into him and he's leaving for work, so I need to get this date in.

[Jeffrey]

Yeah, I mean, most guys would take that. So well, but James, we're a little worried about. I. I am curious how he's going to react. Cuz I'm thinking how would I personally feel or how would any of us feel if you're him and you get that message?

[Brooke]

Well, and even though he's more into you than you are to him, like, he obviously agrees this isn't a forever thing, else he would have fought harder to, you know.

[Jeffrey]

Sure. So he might be a little hurt or he might be totally cool with it. Maria, has he responded?

[Maria]

He has.

[Jeffrey]

Oh my gosh. Okay, what did he say?

[Maria]

So he texted a picture of Macaulay Cokins shocked to a Malone face.

[Brooke]

Like shaving cream on or the after shave on.

[Jeffrey]

And he screams and he's like, okay.

[Co-host 2]

I can visualize it.

[Brooke]

Okay.

[Jeffrey]

All right. Is that it?

[Maria]

No. And then underneath it, he wrote, reactivating my Tinder as we speak with a spark emoji. Okay.

[Brooke]

Oh, so does that mean you're just single now?

[Co-host 3]

Maybe that's the text. You need to ask.

[Jeffrey]

What does this mean?

[Co-host 3]

We're done now?

[Jeffrey]

What does that mean to you, Maria?

[Maria]

That's the thing. So we've had this, like, whole inside joke thing going about how we're going to reactivate our Tinder accounts at the exact same time when we break up.

[Jeffrey]

So he's.

[Co-host 3]

He's being funny.

[Maria]

He's really funny. Like, honestly, like, this is why I kind of wanted to date him in the first place.

[Co-host 1]

Kind of wanted?

[Co-host 3]

Yeah.

[Jeffrey]

Just from the way that you're reacting, it sounds like you don't even want it to really end. Like, deep down. I don't know.

[Co-host 3]

That kind of reminded her what she liked about him. I don't know.

[Co-host 1]

She seems excited to go on a date with a new guy, so. I mean.

[Jeffrey]

Yeah, that's true.

[Maria]

It just sucks because he's being super charming and I hate it.

[Co-host 1]

You know, breakups are easier if one person is just bad guy.

[Brooke]

You can't be indecisive now.

[Jeffrey]

Yeah, because from his text, it sounds like he's cool with it. It's over.

[Co-host 1]

Yeah.

[Jeffrey]

Yeah.

[Co-host 3]

This is like the best case scenario, right?

[Maria]

Well, that's the thing, is like, it should be over in a few days, but, like, it shouldn't be over, like, right now.

[Jeffrey]

Oh, no way. Are you saying now that you feel like maybe you like him and you don't really want it to end?

[Co-host 3]

Feels like that a little.

[Maria]

No, like, for me and him, I just. I just need to confirm that it's done officially. You know what I mean?

[Jeffrey]

I mean, didn't he Already confirm it.

[Brooke]

Macaulay Culkin just confirmed it? Yeah, like, for sure.

[Jeffrey]

I mean, I guess he did it through a joke. You want, like, actual written words? We are over.

[Maria]

I. I mean, I just. I have to, like, figure out how to do this, so I know that there's, like, an actual. Like, that. It's done.

[Brooke]

You want confirmation.

[Co-host 1]

Okay.

[Brooke]

Is there a chance that maybe you're disappointed in him being.

[Jeffrey]

Not caring, not pushing back more?

[Maria]

I mean. No, I just. I don't know. I. I already made my decision, so I just have to go through with it.

[Jeffrey]

Well, look, if. If you want to keep it with the funny light mode that he's been doing, maybe just type in the date when you first started dating with a dash to today's date and then a little tombstone emoji.

[Brooke]

Yeah. Rip and a thumbs up.

[Maria]

Oh, my God.

[Co-host 3]

I think it's good he's being funny. You could be funny.

[Jeffrey]

What do you think?

[Maria]

Yeah, I know I do, kind of. Okay, Jeff, you're really funny. Are you single?

[Jeffrey]

Yeah. Let's focus on the goal that you came to us hoping to do. What do you think about what I said? Sending the dates with the dash and the tombstone emoji.

[Maria]

Yeah, I like that. I'm gonna send that right now.

[Brooke]

Okay. So we're just wrapping things up. This is actually, like, I feel like a really good example of how we all should handle breakups.

[Co-host 3]

Yeah,

[Jeffrey]

every relationship should have a premeditated breakup. And, Murray, by the way, I forgot to tell you, chime in anytime if you see him texting you back or you see any dots or anything like that.

[Brooke]

And if you see dots, also, let us know.

[Jeffrey]

Yeah. Because that's very important.

[Maria]

Okay. I need to tell you something.

[Brooke]

What?

[Co-host 1]

Oh, what?

[Maria]

I didn't send the two sent text.

[Co-host 3]

What is that?

[Co-host 1]

What did you send?

[Brooke]

The tombstone text. What did you send?

[Maria]

I didn't. I didn't send anything. I think I'm starting to have feelings for him more than.

[Co-host 1]

No, these are gonna last a week. You can't do this.

[Brooke]

You're just stringing him along, and then you're gonna actually hurt his feelings. Like, this is a graceful way to do this.

[Maria]

It's all happening so fast, and now I'm just, like, second guessing it.

[Jeffrey]

Okay, Marie, listen. We get that you're confused, but we are on a time limit here on this show, and if you don't know what you want to do, then no goal to reach for.

[Maria]

No, I know, I know. I didn't mean to put you guys in this position, but I guess I want to enjoy the last three days of them.

[Brooke]

Okay, I don't know that that's an option.

[Jeffrey]

Okay, if that's how you feel, then why don't you just send that then?

[Brooke]

Oh, my work trip got canceled. Looks like I have.

[Co-host 1]

The campsite is booked.

[Jeffrey]

It's on fire. I can't go there.

[Co-host 3]

No, she lied about the. What are you gonna say now?

[Maria]

I'll just tell him that I'll see if I can move the date or something like that and just that I want to at least have our last couple days together. Oh, boy.

[Co-host 3]

I would love to hear the response. Do we have time to hear what he.

[Jeffrey]

I know.

[Brooke]

This is when you see the power pendulum swing.

[Co-host 1]

Yeah.

[Co-host 3]

Now he's like, what are you doing?

[Co-host 1]

She likes me too much.

[Brooke]

He's saying, she's so into me.

[Maria]

Okay, I sent it.

[Co-host 3]

Oh my God. This time to respond.

[Brooke]

I think you're going to be heartbroken this weekend.

[Jeffrey]

So yeah, we've gone from like wanting to move up the breakup date to not having a breakup date to now it's back to the original breakup like nothing ever happened.

[Co-host 1]

Back to Brooke saying, I wish all relationships handled this way.

[Co-host 3]

No wonder they can't.

[Jeffrey]

At least it's not confusing for anybody.

[Maria]

Oh my God.

[Brooke]

What?

[Jeffrey]

Oh my God.

[Maria]

He sent me a message.

[Jeffrey]

Oh. What?

[Brooke]

Why are you laughing?

[Co-host 3]

This is the most important one of the whole thing.

[Maria]

He said too late and he sent a screenshot of his Tinder bio. He already restarted it.

[Jeffrey]

Oh my God.

[Co-host 3]

He's literally on Tinder right now.

[Brooke]

Have fun with the new guy, Maria. Yeah, I guess.

[Maria]

Oh my God. I gotta go. I have to re download my Tinder so I can rematch them.

[Co-host 3]

No, not one of us can get there first.

[Jeffrey]

Ladies. You're in a healthy mental state, Maria. I feel like textual healing achieved.

[Brooke]

Hey, but listen, she did finally let him make the choice. Just like you wanted.

[Jeffrey]

That's right, you did.

[Co-host 3]

With the other guy. Now I. I'll.

[Jeffrey]

Yeah, enjoy trying to rematch with your ex boyfriend on Tinder.

[Maria]

Oh my God.

[Brooke]

I feel like she's going to stand outside of his apartment just so that the geotag Swiping Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning.

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[Jeffrey]

Is it harder to rematch with someone on Tinder after you've already been in a non serious, exclusive six month relationship with them?

[Co-host 3]

I would think emotionally it's harder.

[Co-host 1]

Could set your, you know, categories really specific.

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[Jeffrey]

You know her age.

[Co-host 3]

It's like between 22 and 24.

[Brooke]

Yeah. This location, this color hair.

[Maria]

Yeah.

[Jeffrey]

Maybe it's just like the normal thing on Tinder where everyone's just going through the rotation till they wind up back where they started.

[Co-host 3]

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[Brooke]

I'm like what the heck Is it like reaching the end of the Internet?

[Jeffrey]

Yeah. It just makes me so happy for her. I feel like, like she's right where she wants to be.

[Co-host 3]

I don't think she knows where she wants to be.

[Jeffrey]

No.

[Co-host 1]

This reminds me of every friend going through a breakup ever.

[Brooke]

That woman needs to be single is what she needs to be. She needs to work on herself a little bit.

[Jeffrey]

Yes. We have asked Maria to keep us updated on her breakup and her possible rekindling.

[Brooke]

Do we want to be on you

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by the end Jeff know that I

[Brooke]

want to be updated on this one.

[Jeffrey]

There's so many updates.

[Co-host 3]

Good.

[Brooke]

Just leaving it vague.

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Plus, with the new guy, who knows what's going to happen? But if you enjoyed that, we've got plenty more textual healings up on our podcast, BrookeandJeffrey. And in the spirit of this call, we want you to subscribe, unsubscribe six months later, and then resubscribe to us all over again.

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Yeah, that's fun.

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