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111: Hookups and Herpes with Alexandra Harbushka
Life With Herpes
https://youtu.be/wTmCWWzMLyELet’s talk about sex! The hookup culture has become a pretty controversial cultural topic amongst college kids, psychologist, and the baby boomers worrying about their kids in this sexual revolution. Some main points that are brought up are, safe sex, self-worth, mental health, is the love dead and basically a lack of understanding of what hooking up really is. It gets brought to my attention almost on a daily basis by members of our Life With He…
113: Talking about Sex and Herpes and Getting Tested with Alexandra Harbushka
Life With Herpes
https://youtu.be/bBo4P5Yywj4We have no problem talking about what’s going on in our lives or what we want for dinner but when it comes to talking about sex we all act like little kids that got caught with their hand in the cookie jar. Basically, we freeze and run away.
Sound familiar?
Be honest… have you always had “the talk” before getting naked with someone?
Right. That’s what I thought. And why?
Because we don’t know how to have the talk. The sex talk is something that old …
117: What I Wish I Knew Before I Was Diagnosed With Herpes With Alexandra Harbushka
Life With Herpes
It’s so easy to look back with the knowledge that you have now and say I shoulda coulda woulda etc. If you could turn back the time you could pick the winning lotto tickets or ace the final exam or even sweet the one you love off your feet. I don’t think too many people would say, “I’d still get herpes”. However, I would but that’s another post.
Now knowing everything I know about herpes I wish there were somethings that I would have kno…
118: Red Flag Responses To Safe Sex With Alexandra Harbushka
Life With Herpes
Alright, I’ll just jump right to it. We hate having the “sex” talk and even worse we hate having the “safe sex” talk.
I’m sure we all could come up with some really classic responses. In fact, you should let us all know your favorite response to the “safe sex” talk. It’s like coming up with your favorite pick up line. Lol. Ok but in all seriousness having the safe sex convo is really important. I talk a lot about this in other shows so fe…
119: How NOT To Tell Your Partner You Have Herpes With Alexandra Harbushka
Life With Herpes
Hi there. So we’ve talked a ton about how to tell your partner or when to tell your partner and what to say when you tell your partner. It’s all scary and trust me I totally get it. Society has made us look like we’re bad people for having herpes and we’ve also been taught to not talk about sex. So why would talking about herpes be normal or easy?
So here are some ways to NOT tell your partner you have herpes.
A really bad time is…
Whe…
120: Reason's To Date Even With Herpes With Alexandra Harbushka
Life With Herpes
I have to imagine that dating has been around since the first humas roamed this earth. Finding love, compaionship, friendship and the desire to reproduce is just in our DNA. And from my opinion it’s in pretty much every species DNA. Now, don’t quote me on that, I’m in no way a National Geographic or Animal Planet expert. But what I’m saying is we are born to desire companionship and reproduce. If we didn’t have that then our specise would b…
110: Dating, Falling In Love and Married With Herpes With Alexandra Harbushka
Life With Herpes
This episode is all about our story from dating, to falling in love and getting married. And of course, there's that little thing called herpes. We wanted to share our journey so that you can use it as a reference for your relationship. Bill talks about what it's like to be married to someone with herpes and what our journey is like.
We share all our secrets and talk everything from sex to life and friendship.
This is pretty personal so I hope you enjoy. Remember, herpes can…
112: Bill & Alexandra How We Handle Sex And Herpes
Life With Herpes
https://youtu.be/tqvPMnvN3XsOk, so I get asked time and time again about my relationship with my husband, Bill. People ask me if we practice safe sex, if we even have sex, people ask if he has herpes and also people ask what's going through Bill's mind about me having herpes. Well in this episode we share the nitty-gritty and Bill opens up about what's on his mind when we have sex. It's a pretty fun and personal video.
xoxox,
Alexandra
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One of the biggest reasons why herpes is so dreaded is because it stays with you forever. It’s one of the few things you're guaranteed to take with you when you die. The reason is
Now compared to getting chlamydia or ghonorrea or even strep throat these are all bacterial infections, not viruses. So when a person is diagnosed with say chlamydia a doctor will prescribe an antibiotic that will kill the chlamydia living in your body. You …
120: Alexandra Harbushka's Husbands Thoughts On Her Having Herpes
Hi there! On today’s episode my husband, Bill, is joining us. Yay! There’s been a ton of Secret Society members who’ve been asking about Bill and wanting to know what his true thoughts were when it came to be with me, us having sex and the risks of transmitting herpes.
Originally when I was diagnosed I truly believed that nobody would love me because of this virus. Sound familiar? I stayed in a relationship far too long because I didn’t have the self-confi…