Connell Barrett

On many dates, I've told women about my nine-week failed marriage and how I screwed that up.

And that gave her the green light to open up about her past mistakes.

And so you got two people being emotionally naked.

When two people are being emotionally naked,

higher degree of chance that two people will be getting actually naked.

And one more quick story to show you what I'm talking about here.

I had a first date with a woman named Jennifer once.

Jennifer and I are different ages.

We don't have a lot in common.

She's into painting and art.

I don't have any visual skills in that area.

We don't have the same music in common.

We have almost nothing in common in terms of information.

But

here's how we connected emotionally.

We were talking and opening up a little bit and we discovered that we were both the ugly duckling when we were kids.

I told her how I was fat kid in school.

My nickname, my name is Connell Barrett, but this mean kid in school, Eric Sundermeyer, called me corn oil bear fat.

And I had this big red Afro.

I was like the chunky fat kid in my school.