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To not want to have sex with partner after finding this out?

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Namechange224 · 27/01/2020 20:09

DP and I have been together a few years. I was just on his email account on our shared computer looking for a booking reference and discovered an email from 7 months before we got together. He had ordered chlamydia treatment medicine.
I had asked him before in conversation if he had ever had any STD/STI and he said no, so obviously lied.
I know it was before me but I can't help feeling repulsed by it and also now repulsed at the idea of having sex with him!

AIBU? Would you feel the same??

OP posts:
saraclara · 28/01/2020 10:49

She didn't ask him if he's taken that drug. She asked him if he's had an std. He said no.

JacquesHammer · 28/01/2020 10:52

She didn't ask him if he's taken that drug. She asked him if he's had an std. He said no

And at which point "why do you ask" - to maybe get to the bottom of it? If only there was a way. I mean if someone asked me out of the blue "have you had an STD" I might be slightly interested in what had prompted it!

saraclara · 28/01/2020 10:54

She asked him about stds BEFORE she saw that email.
Read the OP again.

saraclara · 28/01/2020 10:56

Let's make it easy for you

I had asked him before in conversation if he had ever had any STD/STI and he said no, so obviously lied.

Urkiddingright · 28/01/2020 11:00

He was probably embarrassed about it. Why on Earth were you snooping at emails from before you even met? Such a weird thing to do...

It really doesn’t matter, he was treated for it months before you met and therefore responsibly hasn’t spread it to anyone else. How would you have reacted if he’d been honest at the time and said yeah, I had chlamydia a few months ago? Probably recoiled in horror, right?

It’s a super common STI. A lot of people have it without realising which is shit so they spread it unknowingly to others.

LemonTT · 28/01/2020 11:06

He would not have received an email saying we are sending you X medication for Y diagnosis. He won’t even receive an email confirming an online diagnosis.

The treatment for the condition is a common treatment for a range of conditions.

deydododatdodontdeydo · 28/01/2020 11:15

OP please come back and explain how you know the antibiotics he took were treatment for chlamydia.
Like others have said, you can't know that from the email, unless it was from the clap clinic, which it may have been, but you don't explain.

AryaStarkWolf · 28/01/2020 11:22

YABU, if he didn't have it when you met then it's his own business, I get why he would have lied at the start of a relationship about something like that, it's embarrassing

GEEpEe · 28/01/2020 11:33

I don't think it is wise to lie but I look at this a different way. I would never ask someone if they have ever had a chest infection or a tummy bug and whether it had been adequately treated because it is mostly irrelevant to me unless they appear symptomatic in which case I do ask.

I do ask sexual partners about STDs and whether they are cured/treated because of the risk of contracting one.

The difference is that if someone tells you they contracted norovirus but have since recovered enough not to be contagious, you would never judge that person negatively or make assumptions about their lifestyle. With an STD, people do make those assumptions and that's why people have a tendency to hide their history, particularly where it no longer poses a risk.

The fact that you are indeed now judging him negatively only serves to reinforce the view that he should hide it when actually there is good reason for ensuring that treatment was indeed complete and they've had negative test results since then.

The only reason that chlamydia isn't viewed the same as norovirus is because it spreads through sex and society still shames promiscuity, or even the hint of promiscuity. Imagine if we dumped someone for once having the flu?

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