oh help, do I cancel?

[OnlyGodKnowsWhy]

Started seeing someone recently, due to see him again Friday so will have been a week since we last met, was so looking forward to seeing him!

But I've been a bit rundown lately and to my absolute horror my dreaded cold sore has started up and I am the ONLY person I know that gets it on the tip of my nose! Other than my grandmother.

I'm going to have to cancel aren't I, or risk putting him off. I've got tablets to take but they don't do much, l-lysine supplement which limits it to about once a year and a cream but chances of it even being able to be covered with makeup by Friday night is highly unlikely.

Because it's a new relationship, I don't see him in the week as I have my children so the weekend is the time I can see him. If I cancel it will likely mean I won't see him until the following weekend and how would I explain that one? Hey, I've got face herpes, can't meet for 7-10 days?

OP I like shemozzle's suggestion of just telling him "Urgh, have a hideous cold sore right on the end of my hooter! I'm such a catch. If this doesn't put you off can we go somewhere dark like the cinema? I'm afraid kissing is off the agenda". Seriously, I realise you feel unnatractive but please don't lie to him (people usually hate liars and if he catches you out the relationship is doomed from the start). But then again I'm in my 40s and have a far more relaxed attitude to dating than I did when I was younger and can laugh off something mildly embarrassing. After all, if I'm bothered to date I'm hoping to find someone to develop a relationship with and they need to realise that women are human. You could stick a plaster on in