Coping With Herpes In The Peak Of Summer (Rx: HAVE SOME FUN)

Here in Vancouver, the summer has been awesome, if a little excessively hot from time to time. Now the PNE is underway, signalling the peak and the impending wind-down of our most precious month.

How do you feel if you have genital herpes and are keeping it secret inside yourself, watching couples hand-in-hand walking the seawall, enjoying water sports, dining on patios, dressed to the nines to hit the city’s night time hotspots?

Chances are that if you are still holding onto the pain and isolation of this (EXTREMELY COMMON, though stigmatized) disease, you feel at least as miserable in the beautiful summer as you do in the murky gray depths of our Wet-Coast winters.

Come out and play!

There is a seemingly magical key to the emotional prison of suffering in silence with genital herpes / HSV:  it’s called Positive Singles. It’s a dating site specially for people who have STDs like HSV, where those who are carrying the virus can openly disclose that (in an anonymous way of course, no breach of privacy here!) and easily find others who have the same condition.

You may have visited other websites and wished that there could be a checkbox for Herpes right there with the other common criteria like Marital Status, Height, Eye Colour, etc.

Now, you can go to Positive Singles and there IS a checkbox for Herpes! And once you join the website you will find TONS of WONDERFUL, smart, nice, good-looking singles who also have it and prefer to be with someone else who has it.

VERY LIBERATING.

Here’s a prediction: if you go and join up right now, keep an open mind and an open heart, you will be unable to wipe the smile off your face by the time the first nips of autumn remind you that it’s time to get cozy with someone special.

New Years’ Resolution: Find Your Soul-Mate

Believe it or not, the days are getting longer now, the Winter is concluding, and a new year has begun!

Why not get out there and find your true love?

If you are one of the legion of Vancouver singles saying to yourself: “I have herpes – who would want to go out with me” – please think again! The HSV / genital herpes virus is so common that even mainstream TV is starting to talk about it (sometimes awkward, but it’s bringing the topic ‘out of the closet’ – another article forthcoming!).

Some singles who are herpes positive even go so far as to judge others who are in the same situation, saying to themselves: “the herpes dating sites must be full of people I really wouldn’t find datable – yuck!”

NOTHING COULD BE FARTHER FROM THE TRUTH!

In fact, as many readers know, having the virus does not say much about you other than the fact that you have the virus. Also, the people who join the herpes dating sites are the ones who are of a mind to DISCLOSE (as opposed to those who do NOT disclose and expose partners to risk without their knowledge).

Here’s a suggestion – join up at PositiveSingles and find your true soul-mate this year! He or she is out there somewhere and you are going to be surprised how awesome the people on the site are. The one thing that all members have in common is that they are taking back the power, moving on in their lives, finding and embracing a ‘new normal’ and getting *the talk* out of the way before the first coffee date!