Ok imagine this, your 26-27 years old and you have been in a serious relationship for the last 4 years. Its been consistent, you have had your share of fights and even minor break ups but you are still together.

Over the course of those 4 years and say even 2 years before the two of you hooked up both you have not been tested for any STDs, you were showing no symptoms of anything, it wasnt even on your mind.

**Key Points**

- Durring your relationship you cheated on her/him once, they never found out but its still there lingering in the back of your mind, hey at least you used protection right.

- Also you have heard rumors that your partner has cheated on you as well, those rumors were the cause of one of your break ups, but she/he denied it to the end, and in the end you found closure in believing it was not true, but your best friends swears up and down that he is sure of it beyond the shadow of a doubt.

- One day you decide to go vist the Doc, you know just a check up, you think "its been a while might as well". So you get it done, everything seems fine, but 1 weeks later you get a phone call asking you to come into the Doc's office, you come in, he sits you down.

- AND BOOM! YOU GOT THE AIDS, well not AIDS yet but HIV postive

- you tell your partner, she gets tested, postive as well. Viral load tests indicate roughly 24-30 months since infection. There is no way to determine who got it first.

So you are both at home sitting on your bed, all of your hopes for life shattered, your long term goals become irrelevant, your count down to death has begun, you have no health insurence and are pretty broke so anti-viral treatment is not an option.

Your sitting there looking at each other, with all this in mind.

Whats your next move?





**CLIFF NOTES***

You test postive for HIV, after 4 years in a relationship, you have cheated on them but used protection, they might have cheated on you but you have no proof. The only thing you have to go by is the approximate estimation of when you got the virus.

Check and Mate, Life-1 You-0