{"id":11605,"date":"2016-07-07T12:36:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T12:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=11605"},"modified":"2016-07-07T12:39:19","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T12:39:19","slug":"im-neg-and-know-my-partner-is-pos-but-she-doesnt-know-i-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/11605","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m neg, my gf is pos: she doesn&#8217;t know I know&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Thanks &#8211; your situation may be more common than you think. It is great that you are so supportve &#8211; and also that you are smart enough to understand that you need not be at any risk.<\/p>\n<p>Every couple will be different. You know yor partner best and how she responds to things.<\/p>\n<p>Telling someone you are postivie and we get lots of questions for people who want to say but find it very difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Please try different things but talking is key. Perhaps talk about HIV in general when it is in the news. Or talk about a friend you knwo hwo is positive &#8211; which gives you the chance to show you are fine. Of say you once wentout with someone who was positive etc.<\/p>\n<p>If none of this works, and this is blocking your relationship, you can also be honest and just say you know. Be careful in how you do this.<\/p>\n<p>Some people are very protective or their personal health information &#8211; so you might initially get a bad reaction &#8211; but in the end this might be the only way to move forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My girlfriend has HIV. And I am negative, and she doesn&#8217;t know I know. Sex between us is incredibly awkward. Is there anything I can do to make things better?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-africa","category-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}