Herpes and the stigma of imperfection

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Were before before herpes were you perfect okay so what has you putting. So much weight and heaviness on this thing that is going to make or break your whole love life. How fair is that you never were perfect you never will be perfect none of us. Have been none of us ever will be it's just because all of a sudden this thing comes in that. Yes has a lot of societal stigma attached to it yes has a lot of Shame attached to it it's up to you whether you dump all of your own shame into this bucket called herpes or not.

How herpes can be the confronting thing that causes us to come face to face with our shared humanity.

All humans are inherently imperfect, but sometimes it takes something like herpes to crack the facade of perfect and embrace the vulnerability that imperfection creates.