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When you talk with your partner, make sure you are alone in a quiet place with little chance of being interrupted. Explain as calmly as you can what your health care provider told you. Explain what your diagnosis was, how you are being treated, and what your provider recommended for your partner. You may want to talk with your partner about whether or not he or she has been with someone else. You may need to tell your partner that you have been intimate with someone else. If there has been another partner, the discussion may be very emotional and almost certainly will be difficult. Try not to make things worse by adding blame and guilt, tempting as this may be. If the idea of facing your partner with this information is overwhelming, you can ask your provider to talk to both you and your partner together, to explain what is going on.

Being diagnosed with an STD does not mean that you are a bad or immoral person. STDs are caused by germs with which people can become infected while having sex. Some are curable; some are not. If you are diagnosed with an STD, you may want to evaluate your sexual practices and think about how to make yourself safer in the future. Being diagnosed with an STD causes many people to become more open in their discussion of STDs with new partners, and this frankness can lead to safer sexual relationships and, often, better relationships. It does not mean you can never have sex again, even if you are diagnosed with a chronic STD. You may need to take more precautions, but for most people it does not mean the end of their sex life.

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