Contents:
- Medical Video: Medical Animation: HIV and AIDS
- Why should you tell the couple?
- How do you give it?
- 1. Choose the right words and practice
- 2. Consider the time and place
- 3. Draw attention to HIV
- 4. Enter your core statement
- 5. Anticipate your partner's reaction
Medical Video: Medical Animation: HIV and AIDS
If you are diagnosed with HIV positive, maybe you will wonder if you should tell your partner? How do you let your partner know if I am HIV positive? Then what if he is angry or not like? Calm down, don't think badly. You really have to tell your partner, for the sake of mutual health. Prepare everything carefully so that you and your partner don't misunderstand each other. Let's look at the reviews below.
Why should you tell the couple?
It is important to disclose your HIV status to your sex partner even though this may be uncomfortable or embarrassing.
By notifying your partner, it can help reduce the possibility of transmitting the HIV virus to your partner. Other benefits, couples are also more vigilant and know more about how sex is safe with HIV. Your partner can also do further examinations about HIV and find out the condition as early as possible. Your safety and health and your partner are more awake.
How do you give it?
1. Choose the right words and practice
If you are truly scared or unprepared, try to practice first by preparing the right words. You also need to prepare some information from a trusted source of information about HIV itself. It is important to share your information with your spouse, or answer your partner's questions about this condition.
To choose the words, you can ask the doctor further. There may be some terms that are unfamiliar to you, so you need to explain them further by doctors and health workers. In essence, don't use words that are too difficult for your partner to digest.
2. Consider the time and place
When?
As soon as possible. Don't delay.It's better to say when you trust your partner. Of course you have to think about yourself based on intuition. However, don't keep it a secret until it's too late or when your partner turns out to have contracted it.
Don't start the conversation when the situation is not right. Look for empty time so you can discuss it deeply and not in half. Even before speaking, you have to give a signal like, "I want to talk to you about a matter that is quite important."
Where?
Choose a place that is comfortable, not noisy, and safe. You will communicate deeply, so you need a comfortable place throughout the conversation.
Don't choose a noisy place. Because, this will hamper your communication. The conversation can sound vague or there can even be a misunderstanding.
Choose also about the security of the place. Because, you do not know what reactions will be issued by your partner after you tell you you are HIV positive. It can be if the partner emits emotions, is angry, and has the potential to injure or cause certain physical contact that is harmful. Even though it can't.
Safe is also in a sense, keep privacy about your health from other people who are indeed not people who need to know your condition.
3. Draw attention to HIV
At the beginning of the conversation, try to enter the topic about HIV first. Try to find out how understanding your partner about HIV in the initial conversation is still relaxed. It doesn't need to be too deep and protracted. What's important, this phase is to transition between other chats with your core chat.
4. Enter your core statement
After you open the conversation around HIV, proceed to the next statement that you want mutual safety and say your condition with the right sentence. This depends on your own way. Or, there are a few examples of this:
"About 6 months ago, I was diagnosed with HIV. Since then, I have undergone proper routine treatment according to medical instructions. This virus is controlled properly. "Then, wait a minute and see the couple's reaction. Only then can you continue again, "I want both of us to keep each other healthy and safe. I will feel much calmer if you get tested for HIV too. "
Then continue the conversation with the next steps to maintain your health condition and your partner.
5. Anticipate your partner's reaction
Everyone will show a different reaction. Not everyone will give a supportive response. Give your partner time to think. Give an explanation again if indeed he is still wondering. It is also possible for couples to receive and support all your treatment.
