Hi, I'm Tane.

And I'm Aid, and this is Altercall, a married at First Sight podcast.

Hi, guys. Here is part two of our interview with Lauren.

I would say there was sort of a backlash against you guys sort of banding together.

And why do you, I'm sorry to ask you to explain this,

but like why do you think that there was a backlash?

It went from everybody being pretty supportive to people being like,

but why are they, and we were part, I mean, I was part of it in the sense that I was like,

why are there four relationships being litigated as a group

project?

Yeah, I think it's one, I disagree with that backlash. I want to start there because it's

almost like you two are friends. And if your friend was going through a very shitty relationship,

let's say you all were dating two friends and they were both putting you through hell.

You would start to think like, are they like, like, is this a group project on their end to put us through hell?

So it wasn't like we sat there and said, oh, you're going through this very separate thing in your marriage and I'm going

through this separate thing in mind. Let's band together and take the men down. No, it was,

this is really shitty. This is borderline abuse that we're going that some of us are going through.

And we don't get a lot of, what's the word? No matter what we say can be edited. Anything we say and do can be

edited. And so the pink came across as for us as a form of silent protest. It's the little thing that

we could do with the voices that we don't have in this process. We don't get to have the voices we would want to be heard, and that is a way

as confusing as it may seem to viewers, that was our small way of having a voice. So yeah, it was a

lot behind the scenes too with the pink. And I know it seems maybe silly to viewers, but

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