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Author Re: Could it NOT be herpes? First sores/blisters! sigh... (LONG)
Angela S.

2005-10-14, 5:59 pm

Hi Diva ~

By the way, I like your screen name. ;-)

> Thanks hon. Whereabouts are all you folks anyway? Funny thing about
> cyberspace, you could be on the moon for all I know (well, the
> International space station maybe....lol).


I'm in Omaha, Nebraska.


> That "oh by the way" conversation never gets easy, does it? When I was
> "trying" to meet Mr. Right (or at least Mr.
> Not-as-wrong-as-the-last-guy!) there were men who thought I was being
> presumptuous if I disclosed right away and others who gave me shit for
> waiting "too long". (it's only too late if he catches it, as far as
> I'm concerned, but that's just me!).


In my opinion, as long as you are telling the person *before* sex then that
is all that matters.


> What have you people found to be the easiest/best/least confrontational
> way to disclose? (I'm hijacking the thread again, aren't I....it's an
> ADD thing - I interrupt my own train of thought so often I'll tell 3
> different anecdotes and completely forget where I was going when I
> first opened my mouth!).


When I met Don (my husband) I waited three months before I told him that I
had herpes. #1 I wanted to get to know him first and #2 I wanted him to get
to know me first.

Here's our story from my husband's perspective:
http://www.yoshi2me.com/herpes-telling.html

Angela ;-)


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