Vanessa Marin describes how, after the first episode of their podcast, Xander posted a brief Instagram story sharing a bare-bones part of their story. The positive, supportive responses from followers gave them confidence to share more publicly, though Vanessa stresses that doing so remains deeply vulnerable and difficult due to fear of judgment.
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After that first episode came out, we did a very Xander did a very short story on Instagram, just, like, sharing the most bare bones part of it. And we didn't even say, like, I don't think we did say that was the, the reason from the podcast episode. We just kind of wanted to, like, dip our toe in and see what it was like. And fortunately, the responses that we got were so supportive. Like, people were just really kind and shared, like, thank you for your vulnerability and your honesty and sharing that. So it gave us the courage and the confidence to continue moving forward and, like, sharing more parts of the story. But it's still really fucking vulnerable. Yeah, really fucking hard. Like, I know that there are people who are going to judge you and judge us for it, and that's scary and sad and really hard. It's really hard.