03x02 - Love Triangles and Love Triumphs

[bunniefuu]

[dramatic music plays]

[woman 1] Today is my wedding day.

I fell in love with my fiancé
without ever seeing him.

[man 1] I believe love is blind
because love should see

past your insecurities.

[woman 1] This is the biggest decision
of my life, and I haven't decided

if I'm going to say yes or no.

[man 2] This is an experiment
to see if you can fall in love

based on who you are on the inside.

[woman 1] And it started
just six weeks ago

where every second,
every hour, every breath, every thought

was focused on finding
the love of our lives.

♪ We are, we are the future ♪

♪ I've walked this road a thousand times ♪

♪ But now it's different ♪

♪ I had a feeling deep inside... ♪

-Hi, guys.
-[all] Hi!

[cheering]

Boyfriend season is over.
Cuffing season is around the corner.

Like, let's go. I'm here for a husband.

What's up, boys?

Sixty years from now
when I'm 85 years old,

this is not gonna be there.

I need somebody that likes me
for who I am on the inside,

and not what I represent on the outside.

♪ We are, we are... ♪

What up, fellas?

[all exclaim]

What's up?

-[all laughing]
-Oh my God!

Hi!

[woman 2] Can you believe this is real?

Welcome to Love is Blind.[/i]

[all cheering]

♪ We are the future... ♪

I'm Vanessa Lachey.

Guys, I'm Nick Lachey.

Here, you're gonna choose somebody
to marry without ever seeing them.

Whoo!

So tell us, what brought you here?

I feel like dating apps are convenient,

but it's so hard to really get to know
someone for their authentic self

when you get, like, a curated snapshot.

And this experiment offers
no distractions.

You really get to know
the heart and soul of who they are.

Race is something you can't really hide
on the dating apps,

and, you know, for a lot of us,
it kinda, like, filters away, like...

People have certain requirements
of who they want to date.

I feel like this gives you the opportunity

to kinda, like, fall in love
with someone's mind before anything else,

and then the race, the looks,

your job, your status,
all of that comes on top of that.

Well, over the next ten days,
you're gonna date a lot of single people.

If you find someone you wanna spend
the rest of your life with,

you'll propose.

-Whoo!
-[Vanessa] And if they accept,

you'll finally see your fiancé
for the very first time.

Whoo!

[Vanessa] And then, in just four weeks,

you'll be at your wedding,

where you'll make
the biggest decision of your life.

[hopeful music plays]

In that moment, will you say I do

to the person you fell in love with,
sight unseen...

-Whoo!
-[laughs]

...or will the real world sabotage that love
and will you walk away from them forever?

[hopeful music builds]

-Is love truly blind?
-We obviously hope that you prove it is.

[music peaks and fades]

If you guys are ready to find
the love of your life,

the pods are now open.

[Nick] Good luck, fellas! Good luck!

[all cheering]

-[Bartise] This is it, guys.
-[man 3] You got it, man.

-Go find your wife.
-[Kalekia] My husband's out here!

♪ On the rise, stars in our eyes... ♪

[upbeat pop song playing]

[man 4] Whoo!

-[Bartise] Hello?
-Hi, I'm Nancy.

-[woman 2] Hear me?
-[man 5] There you are.

All right.
I'm gonna get deep. Are you ready?

-sh**t.
-What kind of love do you need?

-Someone who calls me on my bullshit.
-You're an assh*le. I'm kind.

-It kinda cancels each other out.
-Yeah. That's how that works.

[laughs] Yeah.

I've always been a fan of 69.

-[chuckles]
-I could tell you my least favorite too.

Being on top.

-Why?
-It's just a lot of work.

Oh my God. You gotta put in some[/i] work.

I've been in certain relationships
where they'll get out of bed,

and I'll roll over
and just smell the pillow.

[snickers]

Like, I'm so ready for that.

Kid? Do you want kids?

I would be a great mom to, like, ten kids.

Oh my gosh! That's the perfect answer.

I feel like I have so much love to give,

and I just... I would love to procreate,
you know, more little Nancys.

I've always said
I wanted a basketball team.

[Nancy] I do want to start
having children.

Sometimes it's embarrassing to go
to those family functions and be asked,

"When is it gonna happen?
There must be something wrong with you."

So, I'm here
because I'm looking for a husband.

[laughs]

My ovaries are dancing.

Whoo!

[Nancy] Pods are open!

[Bartise] I like the voice already!

[both laugh]

-I'm Bartise.
-Hey, it's Nancy.

I'm loving your energy.

My grandma, she's like the happiest lady.

Always smiling
with her big dentures just shining,

so I have a tattoo on my arm
that says in Spanish...

[in Spanish] "There's always
something to smile about."

[in Spanish] Oh my God. You speak Spanish?

[in English] You speak Spanish? [laughs]
Wait, so you know what that means?

-Ah. Yes.
-There's always something to smile about.

[chuckles]

My dad was always like,
"Look, whoever you end up with,

it has to be a friend.
It has to be your companion."

He was like, you know,
"If you guys can't be friends,

true friends,
where you have each other's backs,

it's not gonna work."

[Bartise] Divorce was like...
Obviously, I hate it.

My parents are going through it.
I just hate seeing them alone.

Yeah.

I wanna be able to say I was with somebody
for my entire life.

I'm looking for a best friend.

I'm literally looking for
that best friend,

that companion your dad wants for you.

Oh my goodness, boys.

I have 100% been judged by my age.

Many girls have, like, a picture
of younger guys kind of being immature,

not ready for anything serious,

but I would say that I have
my sh*t together for a 25-year-old.

And the missing aspect,
I guess, in my life right now, is love.

Who is this over there?

-My name is Raven.
-Raven.

-[Raven] What's your name?
-I am Bartise.

-Bartise. Where's that from?
-Yes.

Just, like, my dad's best friend's name.

He, like, d*ed on a motorcycle
or something

and then so my dad wanted me
to have that name,

but it's actually my middle name.
My first name's Robert.

Oh!

When I was born, my mom was holding me
in the hospital.

She shook me a bit and said,
"Robert." I didn't move.

She said, "Bartise!"

And I moved my head
a little bit towards her,

kind of opened my eyes a bit,

and ever since then,
I've always been Bartise.

That's actually a cute story.

[laughs]

Tell me how your perfect first date
would go. Besides this one, you know.

[both laughing]

I teach Pilates. So I like to be active.

But then, like, let's have a drink after
and, like, be able to talk more.

-[Bartise] Uh-huh.
-Go on a walk.

[Bartise] Yes, that's literally,
like, my ideal first date.

You work out a lot[/i] a lot a lot, or what?

I'm like a serial worker-outer
with different trainers.

-So I literally work out everywhere.
-Hell yeah, Raven.

[both laugh]

That's probably my biggest passion,
fitness and nutrition.

-Honestly, same.
-Really?

-Yes. Oh my God.
-Hell yeah! [chuckles]

[Raven] 100%.

Before coming here, I was eight weeks out
from a physique competition.

-Okay!
-I was training for a bodybuilding show.

Don't tell me twice.

[both laugh]

Muscles completely blind me.

Paralyzed, blind.

I'm helpless.

Yeah, I'll be your girlfriend. [chuckles]

Mistake.

[upbeat pop music plays]

I'm guilty of letting a lot of things go
if I like how the person looks,

which, in a lot of ways,
can be pretty self-destructive, you know?

But I'm really trying to work on that
and that's why I'm here.

What's your name?

My name is SK.

-SK?
-Yeah.

It's just S and K.

-[Raven] What do you do?
-[SK] Uh, I work in tech.

-Where'd you go to college?
-I went to Baylor in Waco.

[Raven] Oh! Okay, Baylor.

I am actually getting ready
to go to grad school as well.

-I'll be heading to Berkeley in the fall.
-Wow. Ooh!

-Congrats!
-Thank you.

-Where are you from?
-I am originally from Nigeria.

Nigeria. Nigerians are cool.

Yeah, two of my best girlfriends
growing up actually were Nigerian.

Oh, wow. Okay.

Something that I want in a woman
is someone who is educated

and not completely ignorant,
thinking Africa is a country.

-[laughing]
-Someone once asked me

if we had, like, a lion as a pet before.

Like they're just roaming around
in your backyards.

[chuckles]

[upbeat pop music plays]

[woman 3] All right, time to actually
get me my husband.

♪ She's so sweet ♪

♪ That's what they say about me... ♪

I'm a terrible flirter.

Oh gosh.
What is a non-awkward Colleen flirt?

[chuckles] Oh gosh.

So, uh, let's...
Do you want, like, espresso martinis?

Like, I'm just... I don't know what to say.

Is... Like with my hands.
I don't know what to do with my hands.

But here, who cares?
Like, I don't know who they are,

so they don't know who I am,

and I think they're gonna like
my bubbly personality

and I think they're gonna really like,
you know, talking to a ballet dancer.

Not every day you get to talk to one.

And really get to just see who Colleen is.

I'm a ballet dancer.

Ballet is... is very physically extensive.

-Exactly.
-You gotta have your body in good shape.

-[chuckles]
-[laughs] True!

-What kind of things do you do?
-I'm a ballet dancer. So, very different.

Do you, like, pop your entire body?
Like, all of your joints on your body?

Yes. I'll, like, bend into the side
and my friends will be like,

"It looks like you're passing gas
a little bit," you know?

[both laugh]

-[man 5] Tell me about yourself, Colleen.
-Um, I'm a ballet dancer.

-Mm-hmm.
-I just am so lucky

that I get to live a life
where I'm doing my passion.

I love that you do ballet.
I chased money after college.

I got what I wanted and then I was like,
"It's not fulfilling."

-Yeah.
-This year, I'm a wildlife photographer.

-Oh my gosh.
-Uh, mostly big cats in Africa.

Wait, so you, like... You've been to Africa?

Last year I was in Germany,
Istanbul, and, uh, Kenya.

I... Just... Wow.

-My name's Colleen. What's yours?
-Uh, Colleen?

-Yes.
-My name's Cole.

-Wait, Cole?
-Yeah, it's just like half of your name.

-Oh my God. Perfect.
-How do you spell Colleen?

-Okay, two L's, two E's.
-Colleen. Okay...

-Jellybean Colleen.
-That's a beautiful name. I like it.

Thank you.
Wait, how do you spell Cole, then?

Uh, it's C-O-L-E.

-Oh, okay. Perfect.
-Yeah.

So not like the coal like Santa?

[laughs] No, no, I'm grateful
that it's not like the coal like Santa.

-So, Colleen, tell me about yourself.
-I'm a ballet dancer.

-Oh my God.
-Yeah, I still dance professionally now.

Very flexible. Super limber.

-There you go. [laughs]
-Holy cow.

I do the splits.
That's all you gotta know.

-You had me at "limber."
-[laughs]

[laughs] Oh my God.

[chuckles] Colleen is flexible? I'm sold.

♪ I got that bag... ♪

I want to make a lot of babies. For sure.

Like, right now, if I could just, like,
snap and they'd all appear,

I'd say, like, seven.

But real-world dating sucks.

It's been one of the hardest things,
is dating as an adult.

In high school, easy.
Got a massive pool to choose from.

In college, easy. You're living on campus.
There's babes everywhere.

You become an adult, it's like
you're at the office working all the time.

What, am I really gonna meet my wife
in a grocery store?

I did[/i] see a hot girl
on the toilet paper aisle

and started a conversation,
but it's, like, how am I gonna do that?

How am I gonna lock that up?
I'm never gonna see her again.

[Cole] What do you do?

[woman 4] I'm in nursing.
So, I'm a critical care nurse.

-Oh no, you're a nurse.
-Yeah... What do you mean, no?

-[laughs] No, I just...
-[squeals]

No. Nurses are off the table for me.

I don't do nurses.

I... I don't do nurses.

-What are you drinking right now?
-A beer.

-No way. You're a beer girl.
-Oh yeah.

I'm usually, like,
a light beer with olives.

[Cole] She likes beer with olives.

[grumbles] Ugh.

[upbeat music plays]

-[Cole] Who is this?
-[laughs] This is Zanab.

-Zanab?
-Yes.

-Oh, you win the coolest name award.
-Thank you.

So, Zanab, tell me about you. Who are you?

-Wait, can I know your name?
-My name is Cole.

-What do you do, Cole?
-I work in real estate.

I'm an agent, but I also flip houses.

-So, I'm basically a mogul, y'know?
-[chuckles]

The first concert I ever went to
was a Jonas Brothers concert,

and this is a deal-breaker.
Do you like the Jonas Brothers?

-Yeah.
-Like, we'd all marry one of them.

-They're all hunks.
-[laughs]

I'm a picky guy. [chuckles]
You gotta be able to banter.

If you can't banter, I'm not going
to sleep next to you at night,

I'm not taking a road trip with you,
you're not having my babies.

You can't make me laugh. [blows raspberry]

And I'm looking for a wife.
Where are you at, wifey?

Come at me. Let's get it on.

[chuckles]

Who would win in a fight?
A bear or a gorilla?

Like, a gorilla's got muscles,

but the bear's just gonna bite him
in the neck.

Um...

Not to be an assh*le, but, like, no.

[funky pop song playing]

When I look at myself,

yeah, like, I could stand
to probably lose a little, like, weight.

Like, I could,
but I don't, like, necessarily want to.

♪ Be who you wanna be... ♪

I very much love me. [chuckles]
Like, I like to eat and I love to eat.

And I never wanna be like, "Oh my God.
Sorry, like, I can't eat this."

Like, I've never been like that.
I'm very confident in who I am,

and I deserve someone
who understands that.

♪ It feels good to be free... ♪

-[Alexa] What's your name?
-Brennon.

-Brennon.
-What's your name?

-Alexa.
-Alexa.

-What do you do for fun?
-I love food.

-Oh, hell yeah.
-I always try to try new foods.

What's your favorite dish to make?

Oh, my favorite dish to make
is, like, shakshouka or tacos.

-You know how to make shakshouka?
-Of course.

Yeah, that's one of my favorite things
to eat ever.

[chuckles]

-We're gonna have a shakshouka-off.
-I'm definitely gonna lose. Don't...

-Oh my God. This is amazing.
-I love, like, big gatherings.

Anything that we can make
that everybody, like, digs into...

-Yes, all day.
-I'm into it.

Like, on Easter,
we do a big crawfish bowl usually.

Oh, that's awesome.
My family, like, they're all Israeli.

When I lived in Israel,
that's, like, what we did.

I'd host Shabbat dinners
at my house there.

Like, my great-grandma lived there
and I was the first grandchild

and great-grandchild ever to cook for her.

I'm the only great-grandson

that my great-grandma taught
her tacos de papas recipe to.

You're obviously the favorite.
And I'm the favorite.

Yeah. [laughs]

-We're the perfect match over here.
-Yeah.

-Oh yeah.
-I'm into it.

Do you wanna get married now?

[laughs]

What is happening?

♪ It's our time ♪

♪ Look how we shine ♪

♪ 'Cause it's our time... ♪

[cheering and yelling]

[squealing and cheering]

You married yet or what?

It's been a lot of fun
going through 15 dates in one day,

going from girl, to girl, to girl.
It's more dates in one day

than I have in just about my entire life.

I mean, I'm exhausted. [laughs]

Me and Tony like all the same girls!

-[Cole] What? This guy.
-[laughs]

-We like all the same women.
-[Tony groans]

[Cole] That's it.

[woman 5] Jingle jangle.
That's what I've been missing in my life.

-The jingle jingle?
-[woman 5] Gettin' wet.

And when Cole was like,
"Yeah, I just wanna go hop in my truck

and go out fishing
and just take my shirt off

and go in the water,"
I was like... [gasps] "Keep talking."

[all laughing]

You didn't get the jingle jangles.
You got fanny flutters.

Fanny flutters! I love that.

[woman 6] I like a fanny flutter.

[laughter]

[Alexa] One guy can make Israeli food.
I was like,

"Wanna do a shakshouka-off?
Are you kidding?"

And he was like, "Let's go right now."
So, we're... we're already engaged.

-[Loren] You found your person.
-Yeah.

It's like first-day jitters
for, like, 15 different people.

[all laughing]

I don't think I'm anywhere up near
this guy's top, and I definitely wanna be.

I have absolutely had a checklist.

Height, no kids, no smoker.

Those checkboxes
and what I've been doing outside of here

has obviously not worked for me.

[laughs] Unapologetically
picky as f*ck over here.

I'm gonna go over here
so I can have some privacy.

At the end of day one, Andrew,

I can tell he's extremely intelligent.
That voice is like butter.

I asked, like, three of the girls
if they own Dogecoin. [chuckles]

Cole is just that people person.
His voice is inviting.

You can't help but, like,
smile when you hear it.

Brennon is a foodie.

I was like, "I like it spicy, girl."

[Zanab] Definitely felt like
he was confident.

Bartise, he's charismatic, smooth talker.

He just seems quite logical.
I need that in my life.

Knowing that people have gone through
this experiment and are still married

and still happy,
who's to say that can't happen for me?

I'm ready to be boo'd up for life.

[chuckles]

[music fades out]

[upbeat music strikes up]

[man 6] Who wants bacon?

-I do.
-I do.

-[man 7] Yeah, heat it up.
-Probably everyone.

-Oh, you can turn it on?
-Yeah, it turns on.

-[snickers]
-[laughs]

I thought it was...

[both laughing]

It's only day two, but I'm very hopeful.

And I feel very good about saying

that I will leave this experiment

with my best friend.

And it's scary,

but I think that, like, I've always
trusted my gut and I've always...

[sniffles, sighs]

[sniffles]

[sniffles, shudders] Ooh!

♪ You're makin' me use my body, my body ♪

♪ Dance, yeah, yeah... ♪

Here we go. Reach your arms
up to the ceiling, take a big inhale.

Now with your chin to your chest, slowly,
let's start to articulate our spines

as we dive forward.

I like a lot of things about Bartise.

I feel like we literally might be
the same person.

We have the same interests.

Lower the knees down
right underneath the hips

for some cat-cows, our fave.

It's very hard for me to sit still

or, like, be around slow people, you know.

Oh!

Got a yoga ball in here.
Do you have a huge yoga ball in your room?

-Okay. It was my idea to put them in here.
-No way.

-Yeah, it was.
-Why are you so damn cute? Oh my God.

Oh my God. Thank you.

Is there anything that we can do
that you can teach me with this yoga ball?

-Wanna do a hard one?
-I won't be able to do it, probably.

-Yeah, you probably won't.
-I'm gonna try.

All right, couch is moved.
I got plenty of space.

Okay, all fours
with the ball behind your feet.

Oh, this is already gonna be hard.

You've seen these before.
We're gonna do a pike up.

♪ Show me... ♪

Hands right underneath your shoulders,
straight arms.

Yep.

♪ Show me what you got... ♪

Let your head go round your spine,

and pull your abs up
before the ball moves.

-♪ Show me what you got... ♪
-[Bartise] Oh f*ck.[/i]

-Okay, like, round your back as much...
-[Bartise giggles]

-[Raven] As much as you can.
-Oh, I'm in there!

[Raven] Now slowly move the ball
just a few inches,

but lift your butt, like, halfway.

[grunts] Yup!
Oh, my feet and ankles hurt. Yeah.

Okay. Well, it shouldn't hurt.

-♪ Show me what you got... ♪
-Oh![/i]

-f*ckin' sh*t!
-Yeah.

All right, I'm going down.

-Oh, okay, I was holding it.
-Already got me hot and bothered,

then did that, now I'm sweating. So f*ck.

-That was pretty good.
-That was fun though.

[Raven] So, I teach Pilates.
That's full-time.

Also, um...

I'll say this is a big thing
for me to even say...

Yeah?

[Raven sighs]

I really like you.

And I just want to be
as transparent as possible.

I do, like, on the weekends...

Um...

Like, I do some service industry things.

[Bartise] Mm-hmm.

That I know can be challenging for men.

Uh, like what kind of stuff?
Like, you strip?

What? No! Okay.
I don't consider that service industry,

but, I mean, maybe it is.

-No, no. That was a joke.
-It is. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, I've never stripped ever,
but I'm here for it.

I love a good strip club.

I've been doing, like,

sometimes bottle service at one place,

and just recently bartending at one place.

Um...

So...

-Yeah, I mean...
-That can be a lot.

That can[/i] be a lot. And, I mean, for me,

it's like, I would feel confident,

like, in our relationship and in myself.

Like, I know you're mine
and I know, like, I'm yours.

So, no, yeah, that's not a problem
for me at all.

-I'm glad you said that.
-Yeah.

-I'm glad you told me. [chuckles]
-[Raven laughs]

[upbeat music plays]

Having clarity and confidence
is, like, a big thing for me,

and Bartise hits the nail on the head.

♪ Want a little bit more
Want a little bit more than my life ♪

♪ Want a little bit more
I want a little bit more... ♪

Is Bartise still here?

[chuckles] I mean, clearly.

Okay, he's my number one.

Is he? I love that!

[Colleen] I could totally see it.

I can see you guys vibing so hard.

[Colleen] I'm glad that our number ones
aren't the same. Everyone's.

-Yeah.
-I wanna know who Nancy's is.

[whispers] Me too. She's the only one
who doesn't really say.

So, that's what makes me nervous.

I know I will have a good life with him.
I know I'll have a good life.

We will have a good life together.

I was like, "You're so funny." [laughs]

'Cause we literally joke all the time.

[Colleen] You think you'd have,
like, the same type? Or...

Uh, I don't want to be mean,
but she comes across as very...

She's very... [imitates Nancy] "Oh, bubbly!"

And that's just very agreeable
with any kind of person, right?

-Especially any kind of man, you know?
-Yeah.

Nancy is like that person, like,

you see in Walmart from high school
and you're like... [whimpers]

You know, like, "Hey."

But also like...

I might act like I'm busy
and we don't have to talk.

So, it's hard.

It's hard to handle the anxiety
of feeling like Bartise could be making

these same kinds of connections
with other people.

I think about it a lot.

Bartise, he's, like,
you know, very flirty.

Like, we're just like so organic,
so comfortable,

like, literally the same person.

If I hear someone say Bartise...

Oh!

...my ears perk up and I'm like,

"No. Nancy, walk away."

Honey, if I want him to be my husband,
like, my one...

-[laughs]
-I'm about to start twitching. [chuckles]

If homegirl sh**t her sh*t with Bartise,

then I'mma let Bartise figure that out.

[Nancy laughs]

Have fun.

[Nancy] Good luck, sistahs.

[Nancy chuckles]

Hello.

-Who's over there?
-[laughs]

[laughs] I knew it.
There's that friggin' laugh.

[Nancy] So, my potential future husband
should probably know this.

-You have, like, four kids already?
-No, I don't.

-But it's on the topic of that.
-[laughs] Okay.

When I was in grad school,
I actually was an egg donor.

Eight... Eight different times.

And on average, I would give...
The eight times I did it,

I would give those family
anywhere from 25 to 30 eggs.

So, technically, there could be, like,


I'm not their mother,

and I definitely not whatsoever see
these offspring as my children.

-[Bartise] Mm-hmm.
-However, they are out there.

But if the child turns 18

and wants to know
who their biological mother is,

I did sign paperwork that would allow them
to have my information.

Yeah.

Some friends stopped being my friends
when I did this because,

"Oh, it's against what God
was meant to do for pregnancy."

And although I've not birthed a child,

like, just having partners
in the past who said,

"Now you have kids without my sperm."

Like, a very manly mindset of it all.

I don't know how you feel about that.

That's crazy.

First of all, thank you, like,
for sharing that.

But that's, like, not...
I don't see that as an issue.

I think that's beautiful
that you were helping multiple families.

What I would hope that the kids
when they turn 18, reach out to you

'cause I would want to reach out
to my biological mother just to meet her

at least one time and see,
like, where I came...

like, actually actually came from.

Yeah. Okay, speaking of kids...

-[Bartise] Yes. I love the kid talk.
-Right? Me too.

-Mm-hmm.
-Um... do you want kids?

Yeah.

I want a girl first and then a boy.
But ideally, two boys.

I like that concept.
No, I think, honestly, in a perfect world,

I would be a great mom to ten kids.

Oh man.

-You a healthy one! Mm.
-Yeah.

-Mm. Yummy.
-Um...

I'm going to pump
a couple kids in you. [laughs]

[both laughing]

[Bartise] Oh, did we talk about
when you would want kids?

Um, if I had to put an age to it,
I think 34 would be ideal.

Thirty-three, 34,
which is a, like, few years from now.

I don't think I know
how old you are, Bartise.

[chuckles]

I'm 25.

-Are you serious?
-Not joking. I'm serious, yeah.

-You're 25?
-I'm 25.

Oh sh*t.

Wait. I have to get up for this.
Are you serious?

-I am serious.
-Do you know how old I am?

Yeah, you told me. Thirty-one, right?

That doesn't scare you?

Mm-mm.

Last girl I dated was 31.
That was when I was 24.

Wow. I'm, like...
I'm, like, actually shocked.

-I'm...
-You're shook right now.

-Yeah, I'm taken aback some.
-I'm a young buck.

f*cking talk about getting pumped
full of kids from a f*cking kid!

I'm not here to play games,
and when I think of 25, I think of games.

In the real world, I would never
accept a date from a 25-year-old.

I am ready to be married.

I know that it's the right time for me
and where I'm at in my life.

I worry that it might not be for Bartise

because of the age gap.

Had I not had the experience
with him here,

I don't think I would date him
in the real world.

Oh my gosh.

f*ck me.

-["True Romance" by The Aftershow plays]
-♪ Trying to find love tonight ♪[/i]

♪ Trying to find you ♪

♪ 'Cause you're so cool... ♪

Dating apps and dating in general,

where you get the surface level,
superficial snapshot of somebody's life

of what they... what they want you to see,
not who they are.

I-I'm still very skeptical.
Don't get me wrong.

The thought of proposing to somebody
in ten days is still, to me, like, crazy.

But I hope all that matters is love.
That's what I wanna believe, in my heart.

-Hello?
-Hey, Brennon, it's Alexa.

[Brennon] Hey, Alexa.
How are you doing today?

It's been hard
'cause I'm really close with my family

and I talk to them every single day.

-Yeah. Oh my gosh.
-[Alexa chuckles]

Yeah, same.

-Really?
-Yeah.

Tell me about, like, your parents
and your relationships with them.

Um, my mom and dad, like, split.
I think I was, like, six months old.

And it was tough growing up

because I don't think
they communicated very well.

-So, like...
-[Alexa] Yeah?

You know, getting picked up
on the weekends

or getting dropped off, it was...

It felt like there was a lot of hatred
between them.

-And that was hard because...
-Yeah.

Me and my older brother
were the people between them,

so it felt like that hatred was geared
towards me, and I know it wasn't.

[emotional music plays]

There's never any yelling.
It's just, it felt like hate.

Yeah.

I don't even know if my mom knew.
Like, I was...

Right when I was going to sleep,
I'd, like, cover my head with blankets

and just, like, cry myself to sleep
so many... so many nights.

Oh.

So... There's been a lot of stuff.

There's a lot of sh*t throughout the years
that, you know, kind of came up.

But my family's extremely important to me.

Yeah.

Whenever I marry somebody,

I wanna see their family the same way
that they see my family.

It would really, really bother me
if my in-laws did not like me.

I get that.

And, like, of course, if it's, like,
fundamental things that are like...

-It's either... It won't...
-What do you mean by fundamental?

Like, if they don't like
the fact that I'm Jewish.

-That's, like, a fundamental part of me.
-Yes.

Like, I'm not super religious
by any means,

but, like, I am Jewish
and I'm proud to be Jewish,

and I'm proud to, like, have
an Israeli family and I love that.

But if someone had a big issue with that,

there's nothing
I can do about that, you know?

[Brennon] Yeah.
I don't want someone to, like...

Or someone's family to not accept me.

I just want people to judge me for me.
So I completely agree.

So, like, when my parents,
like, got a divorce,

my dad had full custody and all of that.

-Yeah.
-Like, I'm the second one.

I have a sister who's a year older,
but I was in charge of everything.

-With my two younger brothers, growing up...
-Wait. You have three siblings?

-I... I'm one of six.
-No way.

-Yes. [laughs]
-That's kind of important to me.

[Alexa] Yes.

So it's the four of us,

and then my stepmom had one
and I met her when she was, like, two.

And then my stepmom
and my dad had one together.

Emma, and she's four.
And she is... she's my best friend.

That's awesome.

She's the cutest thing in the world.
She gets her nails done with me.

She spent the night at my house,
like, the night before I came to this.

She spent the night 'cause she was
mad that I was leaving her forever.

-And was never gonna see me again.
-[chuckles]

Like, anyone that I marry,
like, they have to like kids.

Like, I want my kids
to have love all the time.

-Damn, every time I talk to you...
-[Alexa laughs]

Yeah, it's perfect.

You've definitely been, like,

my favorite person
to have a conversation with

and I feel like you and I are, like,
very similar in a lot of ways.

Things you say
just pull at my heartstrings.

-Really?
-Yeah.

[laughs]

[laughs]

♪ Ever since you come in to my life ♪

♪ Sunshine, sunshine... ♪

[both laughing]

♪ Everything is all right, all right... ♪

[music fades out]

[Andrew] I took two trips to Kenya
last year. The second time,

I was just out in the bush
with my... my guide.

Rawr!

-[chuckles]
-Rawr!

Like, a period three or four days
where there was no hot water,

so I just didn't shower at all.

And by the fourth day,
they brought me, like, a bucket

with hot water and I showered
with the bucket.

Andrew and I have connected
intellectually.

We've connected financially.

I like him for...
the things that I know I don't I have.

I haven't done what he's done,

and having a romantic relationship
with someone who will help me to thrive

even far beyond what I can do alone

is really exciting.

[Andrew] Yo, let's go.

♪ You gotta keep movin' ♪

♪ You gotta keep on... ♪

I do tend to enjoy
some of the finer things in life,

whether that be luxury travel,
nice clothing,

food, alcohol, what have you.
But my values are shifting.

Things that I care about more, uh,
it's about spending my time

and having the experiences
that I want to have before I die.

I've climbed 70-story skyscrapers
and climbed 71 stories of a crane ladder

and sat there and watched...

watched the sunset above...
above the New York skyline.

♪ You gotta get up and go get it ♪

♪ The world is in your hands... ♪

I have traveled the world.

I went to South Africa.
I volunteered at Wildlife Conservation.

That's... That's where I discovered
wildlife photography.

Twenty days spent in the bush,
getting up into the sunrises,

dealing with the mosquitoes,
hiding from the sun

under Masai blankets,
and, you know, waiting with the lions,

enduring the scent of decaying carcasses.

I have been face-to-face
with leopards and lions

that are tearing apart their meal.

♪ Let's go... ♪

And there's no greater thrill,[/i] I'd say,

than this prospect
of finding true love here.

Hi, Nancy, it's Andrew.

[music fades out]

[Nancy] I can recognize your voice.
You do have that radio station...

-[affects DJ voice] "b*at 105.6."
-[chuckles]

"We're here with the love jams."

-[Andrew] Mmm. I love it.
-I feel like I could hear you saying that.

Do you like kissing, Nancy?

[Nancy] I do like kissing.

It's definitely, like,
whether you're kissing my lips,

my back, my shoulder, my forehead.

There's something that,
like, literally wires endorphins

that release in my body when I'm kissed.

[Andrew] Mmm.

The best sex that I've ever had
has been transcendental.

Transcendental?

[Nancy laughs]

[Andrew] You sort of sync up
with the other person,

and I can feel the pleasure
that you're feeling

as I bring you pleasure and vice versa.

Um, when you're sort of
synced up like that,

every... every caress on the nipples,
on your arm,

a tongue down your tummy, like,
both people enjoying every second of it.

Mm-hmm.

Point is, I guess, to be connected.

-Right.
-To keep the energy flow between you two.

[funky bass line playing]

I've only been sexually open like this
for, like, a couple years now.

Like, I haven't, you know,

been this dude
who's just oozing sex my entire life.

So, the girl that I dated in Bali,
a 41-year-old lady,

she had a lot to teach me.
A lot of that was around sex.

That was my first experience
doing orgasmic pleasure.

Yeah?

And, uh, what was interesting
for me is that

there's also this "sexual kung fu,"

as they call it for men, and it involves...

The ultimate goal of that is to, uh,
have an orgasm without ejaculating,

and there's a set of practices,
and I've worked on this over time.

And... [hesitates] At this point,
I'm able to have,

uh, sort of mini orgasms,

without ejaculating during sex,
which is the greatest

because once you open your mind
to the idea

of sexual pleasure becoming
this holistic thing

and eroticism starting
outside of the bedroom,

it's like an avenue for growth and also,
like, a source of intense pleasure.

-Yeah.
-I hope I can share that with someone.

-[chuckles]
-Yeah, I think you need a teacher

or someone to sort of open your eyes
to awaken you to this.

Yeah.

-["If I Wish" by Rachel Ann Weiss plays]
-♪ Would you be mine if I wished it ♪[/i]

♪ Hard enough... ♪

I definitely don't shy away
from wanting to learn

and experience new things in life.

I feel drawn to you.
I feel your energy through the wall.

And I just... I can't wait to see you again.

♪ Would you be mine if I wanted you ♪

♪ Badly enough... ♪

[Nancy] Andrew gives me
a heart att*ck. [laughs]

Or symptoms of a fluttering heart.

It's very sexy. It's very romantic.

[moans] It's hot in here.

-[upbeat pop song plays]
-♪ You're so good for me... ♪[/i]

-Hello.
-[Brennon] Hello?

[Colleen] Hi.

-Colleen?
-Yes.

-Hey, what's up?
-Brennon? Yay!

This whole experience, love is in the air.

Let's just say that, you know?

With Brennon, it's...

He is confident.

He's making me laugh,
he's making me smile,

and I'm excited to smile with my person,

and I think that he's over there.
So we'll see.

-How you doing today?
-Um...

-I'm sitting on the floor.
-I'm doing... I'm doing really good.

[Colleen] Oh my gosh.
I'm so excited to talk to you!

Whoo.

Gosh.

-What's wrong?
-Nothing's wrong. Every, um...

[sharp exhale]

-I feel like we had something going on.
-[Colleen] Mm-hmm?

Um, and I really liked that,
I really enjoyed it.

But I definitely need to tell you...

-Uh-huh?
-[Brennon] Um...

I don't know. I'm just...

I know we had something, I just...
I just, I found somebody that, uh...

I just... Somebody that I just
connect with and I just...

I, um, I'm very excited and...

[sharp exhale] I wanna move
that relationship forward and it's just...

I definitely found the person that I...

-I had a...
-No, I... I got you.

[emotional music plays]

I'm over here pouring my heart and soul
to somebody,

and they are just not feeling it?
Like, that sucks.

In the real world,
I think guys are attracted to me

because they find
a ballet dancer is super interesting.

I would say they are attracted to my looks
rather than my personality.

And so, unfortunately,

um, after a few dates,
they're like, "Oh, she's a pretty face,"

or "Oh, she's... It's fun talking
to a ballet dancer,"

but then they're like,
"Okay, I'm gonna go somewhere else."

Adios, amigo.

[Brennon] Adios.

-Adios.
-All right.

Rejection is not fun.

-["Let Me Fall" by Paulie Preset plays]
-♪ So pull me to the ledge ♪[/i]

[sighs]

♪ Save my soul another night... ♪

[Colleen sniffles]

-[door opens]
-Uh-oh.

[music intensifies]

[Zanab] Come on, baby. Come on, baby.

[Colleen cries]

[Zanab] Shh, shh. It's okay.

It's okay.

♪ Let me fall
Into the smoke and shadows... ♪

[Zanab] I'm so sorry.

-[Colleen crying]
-[Zanab] I'm so sorry.

[Raven] Just take a deep breath, okay?
Take a deep breath.

-Take a deep breath.
-[Colleen] One of my top two... [sniffles]

[sniffles]

He was like, "I'm not gonna lie to you.
Like, I don't see anything."

[Colleen sniffles]

Nice deep breath. Nice deep breath.

♪ Let me fall, oh, oh... ♪

[sniffles]

[downtempo music plays]

It's really weird. It's really weird.
It's, like, you're going through sh*t

and then there's other people
and you're like, "Wow."

I felt bad about it and I hope...
I hope I wasn't rude in any way.

Um, I know I probably was, but you know...

I'm... I'm never gonna apologize
for the way I feel about Alexa at all.

-Did you think this was gonna happen?
-f*ck no. Not a chance.

-Not even close. I mean, I was hopeful.
-Yeah.

-Wow, this is, like, my best friend.
-Wow.

And then it turned into, like,

"Wow, I really care about this person."

Then it turned into... [chuckles]

"Never seen this person,
but I find them so sexually attractive."

[laughs]

-Another weird, weird thing to say.
-No.

But it's because you... I feel like
it's because of that connection.

-That mental connection, so...
-Yeah.

Yeah.

♪ We gotta write a new story ♪

♪ Things in your past are just history... ♪

-[Brennon] Hello?
-Oh, f*ck yeah. We got game night.

So, before we play any games,
there is definitely something, like,

I wanna talk to you about,
I wanna discuss with you.

Just to let you know
where I am right now, mentally.

Like, where my thoughts
are on things. Okay?

Um... [clears throat]

So, first off...

[emotional music plays]

I wanted you to know

I grew up without heat and AC.

Like, I...

I've had negative money in my life.
I've had nothing.

I'm at the point in my life
where I love what I do,

and I'm not concerned about that.
I'm not that person, like...

My level of happiness
throughout life hasn't been based on that.

It's about... It's been based on...
love, and I haven't found love.

So, like, I'm gonna be completely honest.

Never in a million years did I think
I was gonna find love out of this.

I am the[/i] most skeptical person,
I feel like.

I want to be honest with you
on where my emotions are because...

It's very scary,
um, but I know that, like,

I need to tell you this.

I'm completely in love with you.

-[gasps]
-[dramatic music plays]

Like, you... you're 100% my lobster.
You're my person.

[gasps] I love you too.

♪ Stopping time ♪

♪ With the world ♪

♪ At your feet... ♪

It's like,
I really f*cking, like, love you.

♪ You can't have enough... ♪

It's, like, honestly
the greatest day of my life.

-It is.
-Like, in every way.

Yeah.

Like, every night I go to sleep

and I'm like, "God, I wish Brennon
was here with me."

I wake up, like,
"I wish he was here with me."

Very legitimately,
like, just really love you.

-I'm so into you.
-I love how we're both...

I haven't even seen you or touched you or...
Gosh. I don't know, anything.

♪ We're travelling
At the speed of light... ♪

I don't know any of that stuff,
but I know I love you.

[laughs]

♪ Me and you ♪

♪ Me and you ♪

♪ Me and you... ♪

-I love you.
-Oh! I love you.

[music fades out]

[upbeat music playing]

[Nancy] What are you having, ladies?
I'll start with some honey.

[grunts]

Oh sh**t.

[Kalekia] I almost packed
my vibrator coming here.

I have never used one.

-You... What?
-[Brannigan] Me either.

Never.

I know. Is that weird? It is.

No, it's not. It's not... It's not weird.

I'm not... That's... No.
No shame. Don't... Don't take shame.

-Me either.
-Shocked, just shocked.

I get butthurt if someone doesn't like me.

-[Charita] Yeah?
-That's, like, a knock to my confidence.

Oh, okay.

Sorry, that's my own personal struggle...
hurdle that I gotta get over.

-All right! Get it, girl!
-Adios, amigas.

♪ I don't care ♪

♪ I don't care what the haters say ♪

♪ I'm a star shining every day... ♪

[Colleen] So, Brennan is
no longer in the picture,

but I typically have gone for the guy
who just instantly goes into the room

and everyone's like,
"Oh, like, party has started."

Or if a guy can, you know,
have fun in an awkward moment,

then he's the guy for me.

I've been thinking about you, Colleen.

I've been thinking about you too!
I loved, like, our energy.

That's important for me.
How we vibe off of each other, the banter...

[Cole] Oh my gosh. Yes.

So, as long as we can have a good time,
like, that's pretty deep for me, honestly.

Yeah. Okay, so with that,
let's get super deep.

-[Cole chuckles]
-Okay. So anyways, marriage.

-[laughs]
-How are you feeling?

Dot, dot, dot.

[laughs] Now we got that out of the way,

tell me, what are you looking for
in a husband, exactly?

Exactly. Okay.

[Cole] How many kids
would you like to have with me?

-I don't know. We'll see.
-[laughs]

I don't... I want... I want a big family.

Like, five, six kids? Let's go.
Can your body handle that?

You know what? It... Yes.
Let's do it. Let's pop 'em out.

All right, let's do it. I'm down for that.

-We can have some fun.
-Yes.

You told me you're flexible,
so I was pretty much sold.

You know, how can you get past that? So...

[laughs] I've been blinded ever since...

-You've been blinded.
-Oh my God!

Colleen, please be the one! [laughs]

I'm thinking about her though

'cause she's a ballerina,
and that just... turns me on.

[chuckles]

Deal-breaker,
wife needs to have a nice butt.

[laughs]

♪ And baby when you call my name ♪

♪ It wakes up something in me... ♪

-[Colleen] Okay, I'll talk to you later.
-All right, bye.

[Colleen] Okay, bye.

[woman 7] Ooh, she smiling! She smiling!

[men chuckling]

Good time.

Colleen's the one.
I really think Colleen might be the one.

I don't know. I just don't know! I don't...

How can you know?

[sighs]

Colleen, I see us having, like,

amazing sex and hot babies,

but being poor.

[snickers]

♪ This love is running slow ♪

♪ It's burning through the roof... ♪

[upbeat music playing]

I don't even know what I want completely.
It's like an adrenaline rush, you know?

I'm here for it.

-Hello.
-[Zanab] Hi.

Hi, Zanab?

-[Zanab] Oh my God!
-You have such a cute voice, by the way.

[Zanab] Just, like, bonus points,
I can do a British accent too.

I'm from England.

[Cole] Damn...

-You would be a blast to live with.
-I am a blast.

So, uh, tell me,

what are some things
I should absolutely know about you?

-Let me just stroke my ego real quick.
-Yeah, that's fine.

-Go ahead, 'cause I won't be.
-Yeah... Oh, you is bad!

-[laughs]
-Okay, listen.

You should absolutely know
that I love the outdoors.

You should absolutely know
that I love God.

[clicks tongue] Also, massively love God.

Wow.

[Cole] I love my family.

[Zanab] Tell me about your family.

I love them. I have a older sister
and a younger brother,

and my parents are still together.
So, very loving, you know.

I feel like we're maybe a little more
close-knit than some families.

What about you?

Uh, I just have one older sister.
She's still in England.

-She's eight years older.
-[Cole] Yeah?

But, uh, my parents have passed away.
We lost them kind of at a young age. So...

-Sorry, this is a lot to unload on you.
-No.

Uh, my dad passed away
when I was 13 years old.

We were waterskiing on Lake Worth.
He got back in the boat,

started complaining
about his back hurting, um, passed out.

We called paramedics, um,
and there was just...

He just passed away at the hospital.
They never brought him back to life.

And, uh, my mum, at the time,
had benign brain tumors.

So they weren't cancerous,
but they were very aggressive.

They didn't respond to chemo or radiation,

and then, um, she passed when I was 18.

So I lost my dad at 13,
and then five years later I lost my mum.

So I kind of call my teenage years,
like, my absolute grieving year.

-Like, I truly grieved for like a decade.
-Yeah.

Um, but it made me grow up really fast.

Wow, you have a story, girl.

[chuckles] I do have a story.

Wow.

Wow. Wow, wow, wow.

This... I did not expect this date
to catch me the way it did.

Sorry. [laughs]

No, it's not sorry.
It's a really good thing.

I feel like you're doing
a great job of sharing.

I... just started to like you
a lot more after this date.

-Cole.
-I'm just being honest.

Are you... Are you getting soft on me?

No, I just... I'm here to find a wife, and...

You just hit, like, every major category
of awesomeness in my book.

-Game changer.
-Game changer.

I won't lie. I'm grade-A,
top-choice beef over here.

[chuckles]

[laughs]

I'm a cute little flight attendant
if you ever see me on a plane,

but, um, I don't really get approached.
[laughs] I don't know what it is.

I don't get hit on back home.
I don't get hit on, um, on the plane.

You know, who's gonna hit on me
when I'm sweaty at the gym, right?

But, um, I guess the right person would.

I have no idea what Cole looks like,
but I like the way he says my name.

I like the way he talks
about his family and his faith.

He just melts my li'l gushy heart.

♪ All these dreams inside my head ♪

♪ I'm gonna let you in ♪

♪ Every little moment that we have
Honey, let's savor it... ♪

I was extremely skeptical
of this entire experiment.

I guess maybe I'm just trying to
figure out what being in love really is,

but... waking up this morning,
everything is clear.

I feel good.

Alexa is making me a believer
in this process,

in this experiment, for sure.

I know I feel more open about

the world.

Love, to me,
that's the most important thing in life.

Makes me feel good.
She makes me feel heard.

She makes me feel
comfortable, um, trusted.

I don't have a clear picture of who...
of what she looks like,

but I... I feel like I do have a full
and clear picture

of who she is as a person.

♪ 'Cause anything is worth it ♪

♪ Just to call you mine... ♪

-Alexa?
-[Alexa] Yes.

Hi.

[music fades out]

[Brennon] I, uh...
I've been doing a lot of thinking.

Um...

Just about everything.

I want you to know, number one,
that I love you here.

I love you everywhere.

Um...

I heard a song last night
that I, like, just started...

I kind of broke down a little bit.

It was about a... a country boy
who went to the big city for a dream.

He, uh... He had a lot of fear,

and... and he lost a lot,
and he had heartache.

Um, I feel like for a lot of my life,
that was me.

Um, with you...

[emotional music playing]

[exhales]

You make me so happy

and s... I'm so obsessed.

I'm so in love with you.

I just wanna tell you I love you.

I want to spend every day of my life...

trying to make you happy in any way I can.

I'm going to fight for you,

and I promise you no matter what happens
in the future,

I'm always gonna be there for you
and with you.

I'm gonna stand next to you
as long as you let me.

[soft music playing]

Will you marry me? [chuckles]

If you want to marry me...

Yes. [laughs]

Yes, I will.

[sniffles, chuckles]

-I love you so much.
-[chuckles]

[soft piano music playing]

[sniffles] I love you so much. Like, wow.

Like, my body feels like it's on fire.

[sighs]

I didn't know if you were
gonna say yes or no.

I didn't know what was gonna happen.

And this is the most perfect thing
I've ever done in my life.

Like, you make me so happy.

[Alexa sighs]

God, I'm still shaking.
I got so many f*ckin' nerves on me.

-My adrenaline's going so bad.
-[laughs]

[Alexa] I hope you know
what you're signing up for. I'm a lot.

I'm like... Like, I'm a crazy mess.

And, like, you're signing up for,
maybe, like,

like, a toxic obsession
that I have for you.

So... Just, like, forewarning.

Like, forever and always.

-Forever and always, babe.
-[Alexa] So, like, you can't run.

You, like, literally can't.

-[chuckles]
-There's no running allowed. [laughs]

[upbeat music playing]

-I wanna see you so bad.
-[laughs]

Ooh, girl!

♪ You can rest ♪

♪ Your head ♪

♪ On my shoulder ♪

-♪ Won't you move a little closer? ♪
-[laughs][/i]

♪ Won't you come and sit close to me ♪

-[Alexa] I love you.
-Love you.

♪ 'Cause I'll be waiting forever... ♪

-[Matt] What'd she say?
-She said yeah.

-[Matt] Yes!
-She said yeah.

-[Andrew] She said yeah?
-Congrats, brother.

She's getting f*cking married.

[women cheering]

♪ It's written in the stars
That you'll be mine... ♪

[Colleen] Hello.

Hello.

How you doing today, Cole?

Good.

-How are you?
-I'm good.

I would say I have feelings for Cole,

because I... when I talk to Cole,
I'm smiling the whole time

and he's giving me a lot of signs
that he's into it.

He could be the love of my life.

I mean, I think so.
I hope so, fingers crossed.

So I've heard
that you guys have been slacking

on the fashion, not gonna lie.

[Cole] I would like to say
that I'm wearing a nice outfit right now.

Guess what animal is on my socks.

It's like a little print
all over the socks.

[Colleen] Hmm...

I don't know why this is coming up.
A turtle?

Oh my God!

Wait, really?

What just happened?

There's actually turtles!

-Aww!
-[Cole] On my socks!

That's insane!

I am, like, actually blown away.

-You're giving me turtle vibes. [laughs]
-Wow.

Goodness gracious.

-So Colleen is a psychic.
-[laughs]

You are, by far, the fun choice.

-We have the same sense of humor.
-Mm-hmm.

We have the same, like, energy.

I think that's a good sign.

[deep sigh]

I agree.

But if you and I are to be married,
we're gonna have to go deep.

-[Colleen] Yeah.
-Is that something you're willing to do?

[melancholy music playing]

What are you used to talking about?
Like, what's kind of your expectation?

[Colleen] I'm just not used
to getting deep.

I... I don't wanna say
I'm, like, shallow by any means,

but I'm comfortable
with keeping things surface-level and fun.

Um...

'Cause that's who I am.

For me, like, a marriage is...
It's gonna be very deep

and, like, it doesn't mean
that we wake up every morning

talking about our most emotional things

or some big heady idea
or something like that,

but it just means that, like...

I... I mean, I know for sure

I don't want
a shallow marriage relationship.

You know, I don't know...

I don't know.
I've never been attracted to that.

-[Cole] Okay.
-I've never gone for that.

I don't know, for me,
that I can do that in a marriage.

-I mean, I want that serious relationship.
-Yeah.

So, I get that

it's not super attractive

to only be in those,
kind of, shallow relationships

-and I'm working on it over here.
-Mm-hmm?

And that's all I gotta say right now.

I don't... Yeah, I don't know.
I don't... I have no words right now

just because I'm over here,
like, wheels are turning...

-Yeah, like... Here's... So...
-...and I don't know how to make sense.

Like, what I'm feeling right now is, like,

you're... you want[/i] to want a deep marriage,

but you're still, like, getting there.

-Yeah.
-And I feel like I am[/i] there.

Um...

I can't see myself getting on a knee...

-With me.
-With you.

I just feel like something's off.

I feel like you're looking for someone
who's a little different than me.

[emotional music plays]

Maybe I am a shallow person, then.
You know, whatever.

Or how you're reading me,
but I know I'm not.

-Peace out, Cole. Peace out.
-[Cole] Yeah.

[Colleen sighs deeply]

-♪ Your love is bittersweet... ♪
-Wow.[/i]

So... Yeah.

♪ It's no good for me ♪

-[sniffles, sighs]
-♪ No good for me ♪[/i]

♪ Your love is bittersweet ♪[/i]

-♪ It's right in the moment ♪
-[Cole] Ugh.[/i]

♪ But I just know
It will end up bad for me... ♪

-[Colleen] Another day, another rejection.
-[Kim] What did he say?

I don't know, he just kinda sh*t me down.

Yeah, I think he was ready,

and he kind of, in a way,
called me shallow, I think.

-I took it that way.
-[Kim] Wow.

I don't know
if I'm reading the situation wrong, but...

[Kim] Yep.

♪ Keep my head down ♪

♪ Covered and quiet... ♪

["All This Love" by Kye Sones
and Paul Stanborough playing]

♪ Close to you ♪

♪ Is where I wanna be... ♪

[Alexa] I've spent every second in here

looking for the person
to spend the rest of my life with.

And I'm so lucky I found Brennon.

♪ All this love ♪

♪ It's waiting here for you ♪

♪ All this love ♪

♪ And my heart it always knew... ♪

[Brennon] I think this whole experiment is

extremely unique, um, and it shouldn't be.

I relied too much on...

on other people's ideas
of what love should be

and... and maybe didn't focus
on what I wanted love to be

and finding somebody that, I guess,
viewed love in the same way that I did.

Is love blind?

For me, that answer is 100%.

Yes. Absolutely.

[music swells, fades]

[dramatic string music plays]

[Brennon exhales]

I'm just excited to be with her.
I'm excited to get to know her mannerisms.

I'm excited to get to know
the... the intricate little details.

She may chew chips with her mouth open
and it could be a pet peeve of mine,

but if it's anybody
that's chewing with their mouth open,

I'd... I'd hope it was her next to me.

[Alexa] Like, I haven't thought anything
about what he physically looks like.

For me, like, it just doesn't matter.

But I'm excited for him to see me.
Obviously, I'm a little nervous.

I'm curvy. I am not for everybody.

I just hope, like, I will be for him.

[Brennon] You know,
I don't know what she smells like.

I don't even know
if she's right or left-handed. [chuckles]

But those things don't matter to me.
You know, everybody's gonna change.

I'm... I'm probably gonna lose all my hair.
Let's be honest.

But, you know,

if they lose all their hair,
am I still gonna love them? Like...

Are... Are we so superficial

that we can't love each other
for who we are?

I know she's everything
that I... that I've ever wanted, um,

and I'm just...

I'm just excited to see her

because I know that she's... she's...

the perfect person for me,

so this is the biggest moment
of my life, for sure.

[dramatic music continues]

[Alexa] What the f*ck?

[dramatic music ends]

[theme music playing]