How to tell a partner about your genital herpes?

Genital herpes is one of the infections, transferred by sexual way.

Therefore, having learnt about the diagnosis, you should talk with your partner about the situation.

Generally, the psychologists give following advices how to tell the healthy partner about the illness.

• Tell about the disease before the first sexual contact. Your partner has the right to know about risk to which he is exposed.
• Save calmness. Otherwise it is possible to call in your partner only negative emotions or frighten him/her.
• Begin conversation from apart. Learn about the partner's relation to infections, passed by sexual way, to safe sex, and then smoothly pass to the disease.
• Share the information. Tell the partner that genital herpes is a widespread disease, but thanks to existing methods of treatment it is possible to avoid infection.
• It is not necessary to despair, if reaction of the partner to news has appeared negative. Try to understand it. Some people need some time to comprehend told by you and to make the decision.

In any case, it is necessary to address the doctor at once to receive adequate treatment.