Friend with hepatitis b
I have a friend who recently disclosed something quite personal about her. She's 17 going on 18 and we have only started working together a few months back. Since then we have become really good mates. She trusted me enough to tell me this:
"A while ago i had sex with this guy who had hepatitis b. At the time i did not know anything about this..he never decided to tell me. And so as a consequence i now have it too. I didn't know i got it until he started acting strange towards me..and he would ask me if i was okay and that i should go and get myself checked out at the doctors. I went straight to the doctors to get a blood test after that and found out that i had contracted hep b."
i was so sad for her when she told me this. she felt a bit scared after telling me because she thought that i would see and treat her differently after hearing it..but im not that type of person and assured her that it would not affect our friendship.
anyway..she has recently started dating this guy that she really likes and vice versa. she is now contemplating over whether she should tell him or not and how to go about it if she does. she's terrified to lose him as he might not accept it and i can understand that it would be a difficult thing to do. my advice was for her to tell him as soon as she could but not throw it onto him suddenly. i think her boyfriend deserves to know and if he doesn't come to accept her illness then my friend should move onto someone who would love her regardless of her having hep b.
do you guys agree? she is a really good person and im worried i gave her the wrong advice.
"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little bit of each other everywhere."