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Questioning an STI from 18 years ago?

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ChickpeaPie · 28/06/2023 11:06

I got together with my DH when we were teenagers. We’re now late thirties, married with kids. There’s something that’s been bugging me recently, probably seeing things differently as a grown adult and not a naive lovestruck teenager.
When we’d been together a short while my husband (then boyf) told me he’d got chlamydia and to get tested. I got tested and had it, treated and no problems since. He said he didn’t know where it was from and thought it might be from a stupid date on a university rugby boys night out which involved all sticking their penis in a pint glass 🤮 I promise he’s a nice man 😂
I believed him, trusted him, got married, had kids, never any suspicion of cheating.
But recently I really want to ask him when the chlamydia came from. Did he cheat on me? I nearly asked him last night as we were taking about university days. But it was 17/18 years ago. Would it change anything? Would I really take the kids and leave him if he told me he cheated on me when we were teenagers?
What would you do?

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ChickpeaPie · 28/06/2023 19:27

Pint glass penis dippers 😂😂🙈🙈 thanks for the laugh

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Frogmila · 28/06/2023 19:53

If he touched willies with someone infected then technically it would be possible to become infected too if both glans came into contact (highly, highly unlikely as I doubt they'd be in contact long but, yes, in theory a risk of penis pint pot dipping).

Also possible he had a false negative or chickened out of getting tested.

Tbh sorry to say but its more likely he was young, stupid, out on the sauce regularly, in a new relationship he didn't know would lead anywhere long term and had a quick fling with someone else.

That isn't necessarily the man he is today and personally I would leave it. If he says 'yes, I cheated' then that's new information to you and will be quite painful to hear even in the circs were very different to now. If he says 'no' then tbh you still won't be sure what happened.

Could it be possible to put this to bed, forgive the teenager he was (not that you're certain he cheated but for it being a likely answer), and work through the things playing on your mind about the present?

ChickpeaPie · 28/06/2023 20:43

I think I’m going to have to agree with all of you. It was a long time ago and we’re not the same people we were then.
Can’t believe nobody told me to LTB, and very grateful for that. Thank you

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