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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think part of her wasn't super into being married. Like if she were living in 2026 she'd be single or a serial monogamous. Even if subconsciously, she wasn't putting out marriage vibes.[/quote]

I lean this way. One of the themes of the show is the way NYC in the 60s, and the advertising industry at that time, had a very seductive power over people. There is so much happening in the city, there is freedom and looseness that you can't find elsewhere. I think Joan may have subconsciously sabotaged her marriage prospects because she wants to stay longer in that world.

Joan also really, really likes her job and the power it affords her and the respect she commands at work, and getting married and having a baby promises to end that.

I think this is why she continues her affair with Roger even when it's clear he won't leave his wife, and keeps up her single girl life with her roommate. I think Joan is then shaken by Peggy's rise to copywriter at work, because it highlights the limitations of Joan's own career path at Sterling Cooper. She'd viewed Peggy as a young protege she could sculpt in her own image, and then Peggy winds up *above* Joan in the hierarchy after only a few months. That's what pushes Joan to lock down a man. Sadly, it's Greg. Ugh.[/quote]

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