We hate to be the bearers of even worse news, but you need to get fully tested for STDs. Even if your husband swears he used a condom. Even if he swears the relationship wasn’t consummated. Unless you have irrefutable proof that the relationship was emotional only, you need to get tested. This guy – however much he still looks like the person who promised to love, honor and cherish – has been lying to you. Perhaps he still is. And his affair partner(s) is someone who has sex with married men. Her boundaries are clearly a wee bit fuzzy. Don’t take chances. Get tested. And don’t have unprotected sex with your spouse – or anyone else for that matter – until you’re sure you’re clean.
We know, yuck. I’m not sure I was ever at a lower point than the evening I spent in the STD clinic at my local health unit to be tested. There I sat, along with a number of 20-somethings who clearly made some bad choices, swallowing my rage at being put in such a humiliating spot. I got a clean bill of health.
Carly wasn’t so lucky. Not only was she saddled with a heap of pain, she was left with Chlamydia as a souvenir.
Cross your fingers, uncross your legs…and pray for the best.
I too found myself at my Dr. getting a few STD tests done. Hugly humiliating and hurtful. I did not get a clean bill of health. I now have a life long legacy of HPV which never goes away. I have to have regular pap smears to check for servical cancer. The only positive I can get from this is that at least my HPV is a very week strain and not genital warts...
ReplyDeleteI also have HPV which surfaced about 4 years ago but my gynie told me that there is no way to pin it on a time frame. Itcould have been there dormant for years, since my youthful and carefree days. My gut, i am beginning to hate my gut..., is telling me that there are no coincidences but the doc said that there is no way to tell for sure.
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