riverbank9

Drop the speech. The speech is the problem. Mine was about four sentences: I have genital herpes, here is what that actually means day to day, here is what I do about it, ask me anything.

Tone carries more than content. If you deliver it like a confession they will receive it like one. Delivered as information, most people take it as information.

In most people the immune system clears it, often within a couple of years, and the follow up screening you’ve been put on is how they find out whether yours has.

The reason nobody gave you a straight answer is that there isn’t one to give in advance. It’s genuinely not known for an individual until it’s watched over time. That’s frustrating but it’s honest.