Yep I lost my best regular that I had for over 3yrs and a great source of income and he did my pics too. He was the only one I ever trusted and relied on and always helped me out during hard times too. Still sad and annoyed about losing him, feels horrible. And it was for the same reason, he met someone. But I never thought that would happen as he is married and was always so careful, so I was shocked. When I think about this I can't help but think oh you bitch about her but it is as much him as he made the decision to agree to stop seeing me when she laid down the law and told him he couldn't as she didn't trust him not to have sex with me. I never thought he'd agree to that though considering we were also friends too so it does hurt. I knew he saw other escorts now and then and even had one at mine a couple of times, and I never cared as not my place to be concerned but she's not an escort but a model so now she gets to have him taking her pics instead of me, gets spoiled and gets his company. Cow! And I told him exactly what I thought about it too. It's not nice to just be tossed aside after so long. I do really miss him.
That's why its not such a good idea to befriend a client. They don't owe us anything but our fee, as we our them nothing but the agreed time.
I have moved about too often to have very long term clients, but as others have suggested I find most regulars drop off after a period anyway. Though there are some guys who just want one or two escorts they see because they aren't getting sexual intimacy elsewhere, and prefer to keep things simple by not booking a new woman all the time, preferring to stick to a known quantity, most punters I think are paying for novelty. Like there are those return clients who have booked me regularly for a 3-6 month period then got bored and dropped off, then there are those that I see intermittently but without consistency. I get the impression with these that they prefer to go with novelty but when they can't find someone they like, or get cancelled on, they'll plump with me because they are horny and they know what they are going to get, but I'm not necessarily their first choice.
I also think after about 5/6 meets my standards can slip a little, not that I become rude or surly or anything, just maybe a little cavalier. I've been trying to train myself out of this because to prolong their interest (obviously you can only do this for so long) its good to keep them guessing/engaged, pull out all the stops like I would with a first time client. I think though if they think having seen me 2 or 3 times that means that can act however they like, I'd rather not see them again anyway.
Losing your phone to some tosser with all your tosser numbers on it must suck. Recently I lost my work phone and luckily I'm moving soon so the TW numbers are academic anyway, but I made a mental note to make a paper phone book of TW's with numbers/habits so I don't have to depend just on my phone.