I am a first year at a big firm not in a major city. My office is on the smaller side and it’s a pretty tight knit community. My class year got a long really well and I consider many of them to be my best friends. My office essentially has pods for first years, so I have been spending a lot of time with the classmates that are in my pod. One of them is a girl that I have been interested in since our summer together, and long story short, we are now romantically entwined. This is the first relationship I’ve had in a long time.
Things were going well until a few days ago when I received a positive STD test. Nothing permanent, but still not great. The traditional goo coming from my pecker situation. I’ve run into a hard situation because I don’t know whether to bring it up to her or just pretend I don’t know anything. I really think we may have something special and I don’t want to ruin it. But I’m also really hurt that she would let something like this happen. Thinking about it makes my tummy hurt.
This is all complicated by the fact that if this blows up it could really mess with my work. My mental state has been very poor lately and I felt this was the one good thing I had in my life. I feel like if this goes away then there may be nothing left for me.