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The Comparison Game, Timelines, and Egg Freezing
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Alex delivers one of the episode's most honest personal reflections: she admits that she thought getting married would end the comparison game — but instead she just started comparing herself to mothers. And moms, she imagines, compare their parenting styles. The cycle never ends; it just advances. [1] — Alex Cooper "When you're single, you compare yourself to the engaged. When you're engaged, you compare yourself to the married. When you're married, you…" 1:03:48 Aly builds on this by calling out how unfair it is that egg freezing — which could extend the timeline for women who aren't ready to have children — is prohibitively expensive, giving wealthier women a freedom most cannot access. She also deliberately makes space for women who don't want to be mothers at all, noting the social pressure and guilt directed at them is equally unfair. Both agree that the real problem is how pointed and personal society's questions become — and that a little more curiosity and a little less assumption would go a long way.
