Okay, so this is producer Katie Bishop. I'm here in the studio with producer animal

bacon. Hey.

So we just put out our episode about STIs and we're getting some emails in the inbox.

Yeah, people are responding to this episode.

And we wanted to take a second to talk about one email in particular

that came in today.

Yeah, so we got an email from a listener

who said that he really was glad to hear the episode,

loved hearing us talk about sexually transmitted infections.

But this guy was a little bit frustrated because he wished that we had talked more explicitly

about what a disclosure conversation

actually sounds like.

He said, you need to get back into this episode.

You need to talk about how people break that taboo.

How do they do it?

What should you say say what are the tactics

how to break the news to a partner

I don't think he's wrong yeah because in the episode we talk a lot about people

disclosing telling their partners but we didn't actually talk about the words that they used when they did it.

No, and those are really hard conversations.

And in the process of talking about this email from Melissa that we got today, we remembered

something else that we've gotten in our inbox. Yes, back in the summer, we remembered something else that we've gotten in our inbox.

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