would you leave?

if you found out that your partner had some sort of incurable sexually transmitted disease, would you dump them....or would you continue to stand by their side, but make sure you only had protected sex from then on?

i was just talking to my neighbor's nephew. he just found out yesterday that he's HIV+. his gf left him because she couldn't deal with it, and now he's devastated by both of these events happening in one day.

if i was his gf, i probably would have left too......i think.

i have no idea how he got the disease, but if your partner came down with something similar, would you hang around....or would you bail?

lets not talk about cancers and what not, i'm only asking about sexually transmitted diseases here.

i supose its on how much you care about and love this person?

well depends how he got HIV if I never had it and so would that mean he was fooling around with other people? also depends on how serious the relationship was.. also if I was married or not.. It's kinda hard for me to say unless it actually happened to me which I hope never would..

hm, interesting topic intox. In my case I'd stay, because I've been married to my husband now for 16 years and from what I have read , a person usually has the diseases way before they actually find out that they have them.So chances are I'd already be infected ,and if not I vowed myself to him till death do us part and I damn well meant it. Now if I were'nt so invested in the relationship my thoughts might be totally different but yeah I'd stay.

Wait hold on just dang minute on second thought, it just occurred to me that he may have been sleeping around to get a sexually transmitted deisease , I mean while he was in the current relationship, so let me re phrase. If it was something that he'd contacted before we met, then yeah, If he'd been f***ing around and caught something then that's a whole new story and he'd better give his heart to God because his nuts belong to me if I ever catch anything like that.

So in summary ............ I don't have a f***ing clue!

Well I wouldn't do someone if I knew they had HIV... so I guess I'd probably leave them.

I would most likely stay, barring it wasn't contracted bc he was cheating on me.

If he got it from cheating, I'd leave before he could even explain.

But if he had it before we were together, I would stay.

i would probably leave

I would probably have to leave, but I really don't know - there are a lot of things to consider first.

It would depend on how long the relationship had been going and how well it was going beforehand. If I truly loved the person then I would stay with him, but if the realationship was rocky anyway I would leave him.

Well if I loved him i wouldn't leave! I mean people that close to your heart only come around once in a great while. I would be devistated to if it was me! But still! WOW!

Pretty much how I feel. But excellent topic

Well since my partner happens to be my husband of 7 years I would not walk out on him. Just have protected sex from that point on. We have a wonderful marriage and are best friends so I could not leave him, just work around the problem.

Thats a tough one, especially if you are married. Wildchild is right in my opinion. If he had it before we were together and just didnt know I would stay if we were married HOWEVER it seems like they havent been together that long and definately arent married so I think I would leave. I might care about someone but unless its true love Im not sticking around for a STD.

Oh Jesus. Is she HIV positive?

I can only imagine that she is absolutely scared s***less at this point. Knowing what I know about AIDs-related illness, that is, those illnesses that one contracts after their CD4 count hits about 200, I would be terrified. If they're both HIV positive, well, they're in the same boat together. If she's negative right now, she still has another 6 mos. to know if she contracted it or not. God, what a horrible thing. If they've both been IV drug users, they can only blame themselves, but if he brought it home to her? If I was her, he wouldn't have to worry about dying later, I'd probably feel like shooting him first.