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I was diagnosed last November. Of course it wasn't easy to accept it. Fell into depression but I am way better now. I haven't been back in the dating scene yet but I do believe we do have a future. I think what you need to do first is understand all the things you need to do in order to not infect anyone. The more info you have about it the better will be for you to share with someone. Think as that you need to educate people about your condition. You will be surprise knowing what people are willing to accept in a relationship.

This is my story. There is a special someone in my life whom I consider the "love of my life", even under weird circumstances. We have had a long friendship, nothing sexual ever happened until last year, but still it was only the foreplay phase, nothing else. We have shared many good times and really bad ones, a very special friendship, but despite the fact there was always a sexual attraction we always ended up keeping it as "friends" only. I then decided to let him go, we were probably be in that position forever. I started dating someone new, a really nice guy (I am a female...btw). He infected me last November and as you can imagine it has been really hard. He didn't know he had it. I went into a deep state of depression and he stayed by my side but not for a long time. I believe he could't take it. I would push him to go see a doctor but he always ended up canceling the appointments. All he knows about HSV 2 has been through my doctor and all the research I have done. He left me around Christmas time. I found strength with my family and friends and I am back on my feet. This diagnose changed my life in a way that I have never thought possible. It changed my life for good, but that is information for another thread. My fear was not being able to have sex again, being rejected and all that stuff you all know. I have had one bad breakout after the first one and decided to go with the suppressive therapy (500 mg a day). My situation is that as soon as I accepted my condition I stoped stressing about it. Remember my friend? Well, he showed up in my life again. There were two very clear situations when I knew we could end up finally having sex but I avoided them. I rehearsed for days how I was going to disclose the information. Finally, the moment came, I thought it was going to be again "our way" of having sex, you know...only foreplay, but this time was different and it happened so fast, I froze and didn't say anything. We used condoms, I take medication everyday and wasn't experiencing any weird symptoms at the time. This was two weeks ago and he seems fine. I know it will happen again. Some people have advised me not to tell. I feel like I should and I know he will hate me for that. What would you do? You need to know he is moving away from me in a few weeks, I don't see him as a possible partner at this point but I guess we owed each other that special moment. I, honestly, don't know what to do.