{"id":14646,"date":"2018-08-30T09:24:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T09:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=14646"},"modified":"2018-08-30T09:24:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T09:24:38","slug":"how-do-i-tell-my-partner-i-am-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/14646","title":{"rendered":"How do I tell my partner I am positive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Even though lots of people ask this, there is no easy answer to your question.<\/p>\n<p>Unless you tell someone right at the start, it is common for a relationship to become more serious and then finding the right way becomes more difficult.<\/p>\n<p>It might help to talk about HIV generally at some point &#8211; so you can work out your partners views and whether they are informed and up-to-date or out-of-date and prejudiced.<\/p>\n<p>Then at least you know what you are working with.<\/p>\n<p>You might find he already knows other positive people, that he know treatment means you can lead a long and happy life, and that you can&#8217;t transmit HIV &#8211; either to him of to your children if you want to have a family.<\/p>\n<p>Your partner might even be HIV positive too.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps read some of the other answers to questions about disclosure at this link.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/category\/disclosure\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/category\/disclosure<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi am HIV positive and it was so difficult for me to start a relationship after iv discovered about my status now I meet someone and he wants us to marry me how do I tell him about my status and we&#8217;ve been using condoms since we meet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-disclosure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14646","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=14646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}