Anon, I have to say, I can’t really understand your reasoning here. Val’s dealing with it, but not out of choice, she was outed, quite against her will. She would be the last person to want Juls to risk any kind of safety or shelter because of…making things even? It’s not a statement Val made to show she’s more in love, that she’s more willing to fight for it or anything like that.
AND, even if she had thrown caution to the wind and deliberately come out to everyone, it’s still not any kind of race or competition. Everyone comes out on their own terms. It might even be better for one to come out, them to deal with the fallout together, and then they deal with the other person’s situation. Obviously it’s different for everyone and a telenovela is really not the blueprint to follow. But really, what Juls says to Lupe has literally 0% to do with what Val’s going through.