Connell Barrett

courtship of my girlfriend jess we were on it was like in the first two to three dates we met up in the park one day on a weekend afternoon and we're sitting in the park with a couple of coffees and jess is just naturally playful and fun and flirty she never needed a dating coach unlike me back in the day but we're sitting in this park and all these dogs or all these people with their dogs or someone some without their dogs were walking by us and

And so I said, hey, let's play a game.

The next man who walks in front of us, who crosses our line here, sitting on the bench, crosses our eye line, you're going to marry that guy.

She said, okay, that's my future husband.

And lo and behold, about 20 seconds later, a big chubby guy who looked like Elvis walked by.

Think late stage Elvis, chubby, big sideburns.

And I said, oh my God, you're marrying Elvis.

I hope you two will be very happy together.

Right?

Very playful.

And then we flipped the game.

She said, okay, you're going to marry the next woman who walks by.

And some little old lady walked by.

And I said, well, I do like older women.

So that's how we made our first, well, it wasn't our first date, some of those early dates fun and playful.

So yeah, ways to be playful, thumb wrestling, staring contests, or just talking about fun topics.

The simplest way to make a date or a conversation playful is make the topics playful.

That does all the work for you.

So not talking about the weather, stocks and bonds, Bitcoin.

Avoid those topics.