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!

Summer 2013 – Time To GET OUT THERE & Try A Herpes Dating Site

Vancouver can be one of the most exciting and romantic cities on Earth – especially in the summertime – so whatever you do, don’t waste your energy feeling lonely and out of the dating loop right now when there are so many local singles who feel EXACTLY THE SAME AS YOU DO!

It’s not like “The Olden Days” when herpes was something that was completely hush-hush and people had to take out expensive (and quite frankly… awkward!) personal ads,  or blurt it out at the last minute, or worst of all, not disclose their condition at all, and risk infecting others.

If you do have HSV, then rest assured, there has never been a better time to have it!

Of course that seems like cold comfort if you have been recently diagnosed or if you are still struggling with shock, fear, anger, shame, etc. (don’t worry, “this too shall pass” as they say); however it must be said that every day people and society in general are getting used to the H-word – even on primetime TV!

Today, there is a seamless, life-changing solution for HSV singles: PositiveSingles.com – and don’t worry – it is not one of those “global” STD databases with just a tiny handful of Vancouverites if any – there are LOTS of singles, very likely some right in your own neighbourhood!

If you are hesitating to try a herpes dating site because you think that the people will be nasty in some way, promiscuous, desperate, or in any way less pleasant, decent, smart, good-looking, educated, etc. than people on the regular dating sites, then THINK AGAIN!

Logic dictates that people who are brave & strong enough to go on such a website have the integrity to disclose their condition and deal with it in an ethical – and less awkward – manner.

Just think, once you sign up (and it’s free to sign up), check out some profiles, get checked out, and assure yourself that there are plenty of quality singles there, you don’t have to have “THE CONVERSATION” the way you would with someone from an ordinary dating site.

Do yourself a HUGE favour this spring & summer:

1. Go get yourself something bright & summery to wear
2. Put on some summer tunes
3. Take 3 deep breaths through your nose, and
4. Find someone nice on PositiveSingles.com to go for a beautiful walk or bike ride with around Stanley Park, perhaps a hike, lunch, dinner, or a cocktail downtown or Gastown….The possibilities are endless… especially as long as the sun is shining on us!