Join Alex and Lauren for a deep conversation about why Lauren ended her relationship right before the proposal. The girls talk about feeling pressured to stick to a timeline, the difference between compromise and giving up the life you want, how to find confidence being single, and the ways your friends can support you through tough times. Enjoy!
Chapter 1: Who are the hosts and what is the setting of this episode?
What is up, Daddy Gang? It is your founding father, Alex Cooper, with Call Her Daddy. Daddy gang, welcome back to another episode of Call Her Daddy. Lauren and I are sitting. We kind of feel like we look like the parents from Willy Wonka. We are sitting on the couch, but we really wanted to like be comfortable and not have our feet fall asleep on the couch.
And so we're in a little bit of a relaxed situation, but we're happy. I could like doze off right here. Like I could take like a nap in this position. I'm really cozy. Same. Okay. Wait. Oh, so just for context, Lauren and I are on kind of like a girl's weekend in Los Angeles. Matt is taking his brother to go golf because my brother-in-law and my sister-in-law. No.
Yeah. Your brother-in-law and sister-in-law.
Sister-in-law. Yeah. Yeah.
But does that make it sound like they're brother and sister? No, they're both. He's your brother-in-law. She's your sister-in-law. Okay.
It is? Yeah. Yeah. My brother-in-law and sister-in-law are having a baby. And so Matt is taking his brother to go golf and on like on a little golf trip before they like have a kid, whatever. And so Lauren's in town and we were like, oh my God, why don't we stay relaxed? Go have like a nice pool spa weekend. Girls weekend. And we're going to drink a little bit.
We're going to chill and it's going to be a good time.
We're going to order these green margaritas that when it's the two of us, we like to order them for delivery and get a little weird together.
They're just like those kind of sneaky margaritas that like you get really fucked up from them. And the last time or the first time we didn't know how strong they were. When I moved to Los Angeles with Lauren, we were staying at Matt's house and he was away on a business trip. And Lauren and I, he was like, you guys should order from this place. And we got these margaritas.
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Chapter 2: What funny story does Alex share about their pool party?
Yes. And we were DJing. And then we like passed out in the living room and like didn't turn the music off, didn't turn the pool strobe lights off. Matt's neighbor called him and gave him a noise complaint.
And so Matt looks at his security cameras and it looks like we actually threw a rager at his house. And he's like,
calling you like you guys aren't like really like official official yet he's like calling you and he's like like I just have to say like this is so disrespectful like I let you guys like use my house and my pool like throw a party and we were like um
well you see actually there was no party well it was a party but just two people it was just lauren and i and he's like i'm having a hard time believing that alex like look at my backyard it looks like there was like a fucking brothel back there and i was like and like the neighbor called and gave me a noise complaint like i've never had that happen since i've lived here and i was like
It's just the two of us. And so Lauren and I now always have a joke with Matt where we're like, we're hitting the green marks again. And he's like, Jesus fucking Christ, the two of you together. But to be fair, I feel like whenever it's just the two of us together and we're not like interacting with other people, we are of a pretty like straight and narrow path that we always go on.
What's our straight and narrow path? We love either alcohol or marijuana to like have a little fun together. Not in that way. That sounds weird. But you know what I mean? Like, we like our little, like, thing. But then we're, like, usually passing out pretty early.
Oh, we're not night people.
No.
We thrive in the daytime. And we love, like, a 10 p.m. bedtime.
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Chapter 3: What happened during the Miami strip club night?
Can I say?
Yes.
So like you ended up – Yeah, I had to. We had one of those dinners where you're like – you were just like – I can tell that like you're holding a lot in right now. Like, can you like, just let it all out.
Zero judgment.
Zero judgment. You can tell me everything. And if you want to stay, you can still say, but like, I can feel you're not telling me everything and you're just holding a lot in like, let it out. So we have one of those three hour dinners where I was just like, word vomiting, everything, everything. And then after I told you that you were like,
I'm really feeling conflicted right now because like if it does work out like I obviously don't want to like ruin your engagement but like I don't know if you know how close it is to actually happening and I want you to be able to have the tools to feel in control of your life and not have it to sneak up on you.
And you have and you feel like you're kind of backed into a corner and saying yes, because you're like, oh, shit, like how like what we're here. Oh, OK, let's go through it. So you ended up telling me he is going to propose on this day to kind of be like you kind of do have a window of like, yeah, you got to figure some things out.
Because I was like, Lauren, that was like one of the harder things. things I think I've I was going back and forth with and I think again in the best way I feel like our relationship is so beautiful because I feel like we both talk about we have so many friends that you communicate with friends differently but you and I have always had this thing where it's like
we're so honest with each other and i think we both have found our way to be even when it's hard what we're going to talk about we are so like graceful in the way that we approach things with each other and respectful very very very much have i feel like a policy of like it is your life and i don't know your life and like it's your life yes and it's also as your best friend yeah
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Chapter 4: How did Lauren handle the breakup and go no contact?
It's just it quite literally is like your traumas and your strong suits and your issues and your things that you bring to the table that are good and bad.
sometimes they just don't fucking work with someone and instead of trying so hard to force it while yes a relationship is work at some point you have to look at yourself and I genuinely believe for you Lauren like I'm so happy that you lived with him I'm so happy that you went all the way to the point of seeing yourself in a dress with a ring all of it
Because now we talk about this a lot of like, I can't wait to see the person that you meet next because you are a better person because of that past relationship.
Oh, thank God you met him. And like there's things that my therapist used to say, every person you date gets you one step closer to the person you're supposed to marry. And like there's things that I would have no idea that I did not like and that I definitely need and that like trigger me. I feel like I just like know myself a lot more now.
And so technically, though, think about this, Daddy Gang, if we're doing the fucking math, although maybe you would be engaged right now and planning a wedding.
we have talked about like now knowing how much there was breaking down there's a chance either one you would have been in a really pretty unfulfilling unhappy marriage which could have ended in divorce now you're still so much closer though to just pure happiness of finding your person and i think that should hold
a lot of hope in a lot of people's minds if you're about to end something or this episode is helping you think about reevaluating do you want to take that next step well yes the next step seems super straightforward and easy if you're not a hundred percent in knowing that's the right next step you're then gonna have to take a lot of back steps once you go forward because it's gonna be like well fuck this isn't working but
Don't force something that's not there. Everyone's timelines, while yes, it can be straightforward, a lot of times with timelines, they're just going to like fuck you into making like more rushed decisions where it's like, if you didn't have this in your head and if we didn't have a time clock, like, Would you make that decision?
I think that has been like the timeline and the time clock and the biological clock and children has been and like really sitting and thinking like about that aspect has been one of the things the most freeing aspects for me of like I truly feel like so I've never felt more zen or peaceful in my entire life and calm and like not rushed and like
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