Was it a thought along the lines of him being selfish because his death (at any time) could leave his family without him?
The guy has done some amazing feats, but he definitely seems as if he is on the spectrum.
Which makes him relatable to me and probably quite a few other programmers.
Relationships have ended over a lot less than one person potentially ending the others career by being careless. It isn't a trivial thing where her technique was wrong, she fucking dropped him and he was lucky to only have a simple broken foot.
The more interesting quote to me was when talking about the guy they both knew who died free soloing. The gf said it must be awful for the wife, and Alex (iirc) said "well what did she expect?".