It is past midnight and you are re-reading a conversation from four months ago, looking for the exact message where it started to go wrong. A breakup hands you two things at once: real grief, and a search bar full of promises that someone, somewhere, knows how to undo it. The Ex Factor by Brad Browning is one of the best-known of those promises, so before you spend a dollar or send a text, here is what the program actually teaches, where it is honest, and where its own marketing oversells it.
Our Verdict Up Front
Our rating: 3.9 / 5. The Ex Factor is a structured, mostly sensible breakup-recovery and re-attraction program that gives you a plan at the exact moment your instincts are screaming to do all the wrong things. The no-contact foundation is sound, the step-by-step sequence is practical, and the 60-day refund keeps the risk low. We hold the rating below our top tier for one honest reason: outcomes depend heavily on why the breakup happened, and no program, this one included, can promise that he comes back.
Who Is Brad Browning?
Brad Browning is a breakup coach, which is a real specialty inside the broader relationship-coaching world: his lane is what happens after a relationship ends, not how to keep one alive. He has spent years publishing breakup-recovery advice publicly, and The Ex Factor is his flagship program, notable for shipping in two separate editions, one written for men and one for women, rather than one generic version with the pronouns swapped.
Now the vetting caveat we give every author in this space. Coaching is unregulated, so “breakup coach” is a self-appointed title, and years of public content prove consistency, not correctness. What the public track record does tell you is that Browning is not an anonymous pen name behind a single sales page; there is a large body of his advice you can evaluate for free before you buy anything. What it cannot tell you is how well his method will fit your specific breakup. For that, you need to know what is actually inside, so let us open it up.
What’s Inside The Ex Factor
The program is built around a written core: an ebook running past 200 pages, backed by audio and video versions of the material so you can listen or watch instead of read. You choose the men’s or women’s edition at purchase; this review looks at the program from the women’s side. Based on our analysis of the program materials and publicly documented user reports, the method moves through five stages.
The no-contact period
The program opens with the hardest instruction: stop all contact with your ex for a set stretch of time. No texts, no likes, no accidentally-on-purpose appearances. The reasoning is twofold, and the program is candid about both halves. For you, silence is an emotional reset: you cannot think clearly about a person you are checking on hourly. For him, it interrupts the pattern where your attention is guaranteed no matter what he does. This is the foundation the rest of the program stands on, and honestly, it is the part with the most value even if you never attempt re-attraction at all.
Rebuilding attraction
The middle of the program is about what you do during the silence: stabilizing your routines, your confidence, and your life, so that the person who eventually resurfaces is not the person who was crying into her phone at 2am. The framing is that attraction responds to genuine change, not to performance. That is a fair claim, and it is also the stage where the program quietly does its best work on you rather than on him.
First-contact texts
When the no-contact window closes, the program covers how to reopen communication: low-pressure, light, and free of the ache you actually feel. It walks through what a first message should and should not carry, and how to read the response you get without spiraling. We will not reproduce the actual scripts here; they are the product, and out of context they would not serve you anyway.
The meetup
From texting, the program moves to meeting in person: how to keep a first meetup short, casual, and expectation-free, so it feels like a good memory rather than a negotiation. The advice here is more restrained than you might expect from the sales page, which counts in its favor.
Avoiding relapse into old patterns
The final stage is the one most reconciliations skip and then regret: if you do get back together, the dynamics that broke the relationship will break it again unless something actually changes. The program treats a restarted relationship as a new one that has to be built differently, which is the most honest section in the whole thing.
About That Advertised Success Rate
You will see a success rate quoted in the program’s marketing. We cannot verify it, so we will not repeat it. There is no independent way to audit a number like that: it would rest on self-reported outcomes from a self-selected group, with no control group and no follow-up on how long those reunions lasted.
Let us be plain about the bigger point. No program can guarantee reconciliation, and anyone promising that a method will bring a specific person back is overreaching, because the other half of that outcome belongs to a human being with his own free will. What a fair claim looks like is this: a structured plan reliably beats panic-texting, and many readers report that the structure helped them stop making things worse and start feeling steadier. Whether that leads back to him depends on things no ebook controls.
Who It’s For (and Who Should Skip It)
The Ex Factor fits you if:
- The breakup is real and recent, and you want a step-by-step plan instead of improvising through the worst weeks.
- You are one bad evening away from sending the three-paragraph text, and you know it.
- You want a path that starts with your own stability, and you can hold the reconciliation goal loosely while you walk it.
You should skip it if:
- You are still together but he feels distant. That is not a breakup problem, and breakup tools applied to a live relationship tend to read as games. For a cooling relationship where he is pulling away, our full His Secret Obsession review covers a program built for exactly that situation.
- The relationship was abusive, or involved coercion or fear. Then re-attraction is the wrong goal entirely, and no honest reviewer will sell you a workaround. The right move is safety and recovery, with real support around you.
- You are mostly grieving, not genuinely wanting the relationship back. Sometimes “I want him back” is grief looking for an exit, because missing someone feels more survivable when it comes with a project. If that lands a little close to home, spend some time in our self-worth guides before you spend anything on re-attraction. Healing is not a consolation prize; it is the main event.
Pros and Cons
Pros
- A clear sequence to follow at the exact moment your judgment is least reliable.
- No contact is framed as healing first and strategy second, which is the right order.
- Separate men’s and women’s editions, so the examples and scenarios actually fit your side of the story.
- Three formats (read, listen, watch) covering the 200+ page core, so the material meets you however you learn.
- The 60-day ClickBank money-back guarantee gives you a real exit if it is not for you.
Cons
- Results depend heavily on why the breakup happened. The program cannot rewrite the reason you split, and if that reason was fundamental, no sequence of texts changes it.
- There are upsells at checkout. The core program is what you came for; expect additional offers on the way to your download and feel free to decline every one of them.
- The no-contact concept is not novel on its own. The idea is freely available all over the internet; what you are paying for is the structure, sequencing, and detail built around it, so decide if that packaging is worth the price to you.
Price and Refund Policy
The Ex Factor costs around $47 and is sold through ClickBank. Prices and promotions in this niche move around, so check the current price on the official site before deciding, and treat any figure you read in a review as approximate.
The refund policy is a genuine point in its favor. ClickBank enforces a 60-day money-back guarantee on the program, processed by ClickBank itself rather than by the vendor. Sixty days is long enough to complete a no-contact period and see how the early material sits with you, which means you can evaluate the program honestly from the inside and still get your money back if it is not helping. One practical note: the base program is complete on its own, so you do not need any of the checkout add-ons to follow the method.
FAQ
Is The Ex Factor a scam?
No. It is a real program by a publicly known breakup coach, delivered digitally after purchase, with a 60-day refund enforced by ClickBank. Its marketing leans on claims we cannot verify, which is worth your skepticism, but the product behind the sales page is legitimate and the refund is real.
Does no contact really work?
It depends what you mean by “work”. As a tool for stabilizing yourself, it works reliably; distance genuinely does quiet the panic and restore judgment. As a re-attraction tool, it works sometimes: absence can reset how an ex sees you, but it cannot change the reason the relationship ended. Treat no contact as something you do for you, with re-attraction as a possible side effect rather than the promise.
What does The Ex Factor cost?
Around $47 as of this writing, through ClickBank. Check the current price on the official site, and budget for the fact that the checkout will offer you extras you can safely skip.
Is there a refund?
Yes. The 60-day money-back guarantee is standard on ClickBank products and is processed by ClickBank, not by the vendor, so a refund does not require winning an argument with anyone.
Will it work if he’s with someone new?
This is the hardest scenario, and we will not pretend otherwise. If he is in a new relationship, the only honest path is to focus on the parts of the plan that belong to you: the no-contact period and the rebuilding. Whether a door opens later is not something you can force, and attempts to force it tend to close it for good. No program changes that, whatever the sales page implies.
Is there a version for women?
Yes. The Ex Factor ships in two separate editions, one for men and one for women, and you select yours at purchase. The structure is the same; the examples, scripts, and scenarios are written for your side of the breakup.
Final Verdict
The Ex Factor earns its 3.9 / 5 by being more sensible than its own marketing. The sequence is sound, the no-contact foundation helps you whether or not he ever texts back, and the final section on not relapsing into old patterns is more honest than this genre usually manages. The cons are equally real: the outcome leans hard on why you broke up, the checkout wants to sell you more than you need, and the core idea is free elsewhere even if the structure is not.
Here is the frame we would leave you with. The best version of this program is the one where you follow the plan and discover, somewhere in the quiet of week three, that you are steadier than you thought you were. If he comes back and meets that steadier woman, lovely; the last chapters will matter. If he never does, she is still standing there, and she was the point all along. Buy it for the structure if you want the structure. Just do not hand any program the job of deciding whether you will be okay. That one stays yours.
This is educational content, not a substitute for professional counseling. If a relationship involves abuse, coercion, or fear, please reach out to a licensed professional or the National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233).
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