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If you had begun dating someone who said they had genital herpes from a prior relationship, would that be a deal breaker or not? and Why?
I have a friend who revealed to me that a prior lover unfortunately gave her genital herpes. She's on medicine now for outbreaks and although minimized there is still a small risk of contracting the virus during sex.
If you were in the beginning stages of a romantic relationship and your significant other revealed this, what would you do?
Depends. Are you willing to wait awhile for sex to see if you two are into one another enough to make the risks worth it?
Also, do you plan on having kids? Herpes can cause pregnancy complications.
If you're both older and can take this slow and you feel you really love her and you two don't aim to have kids, I think you should be fine. Just take the strictest precautions.
In reality, herpes is more common than most people think. Some people have it and have never had any outbreaks.
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Are you talking about a 20 year old or a 60 year old? Big difference. I know a woman that got it the first time she had sex, about 20. She is 64 now and its not a big deal.
If you were to get it, you could give it to your newborn babies later if you had a vaginal delivery. Just something to consider.
Yeah, the risks of that are slim. Women with HSV-2 are cleared for vaginal births as long as there isn't an active outbreak and there are anti-virals that can be taken to reduce outbreaks.
In answer to the OP, no, it wasn't a deal-breaker at all.
I don't have to worry about this since I have the incurable ugly disease, but SHOULD I find myself in a situation where she told me she had GH I'd break up with her. I am not exposing myself to any diseases when they are spelled out in front of me.
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