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Hi Kate;

My experience is so much like yours. I've been married to my husband for more than 40 years. He is and has been my only sex partner. Years ago, I found something unusual that I needed to see my doctor about. I was told that I had genital warts. When I asked how I could have gotten them, my doctor answered, "Well.....you don't get them by sitting on a toilet seat!" That was it. No other explanation. I was given some medication and that was that. Dumb me! I had never had an inkling that my husband might be having affairs. Though I was puzzled, it never occurred to me that my husband had transmitted an STD to me. However, before long, it all came to light. Because I had five children, I elected to stay with my husband. Several years later, I was treated for cervical cancer. I'm absolutely fine now, but would you believe I've only recently put the whole thing together and realized my husband had given me the virus and that HPV was the cause of my cervical cancer. Though I no longer have cancer, I do have plenty of resentment for what I went through......and more than a little anger at myself for being so naive. Good luck to you.

August 6, 2009 - 5:34pm

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