Thursday, July 23, 2009

Am I being too paranoid?

A friend of mine recently confided in me he was HIV positive. He's been getting tested for several months after ending an abusive relationship with his live in boyfriend. I've had heated conversations in the past with my friend about his decision to have unsafe sex with his HIV positive boyfriend, not only finding the decision ignorant, immature and stupid but questioning his boyfriend's motives. If you love someone, really love someone, you would die before doing something that would put that person's life at risk. Such a gross inconsideration for your own life has to be indicative of some deeper problem I'm not even ready to try to comprehend. But to knowingly put the man's life you claim to love at risk that's inhuman.

Regardless, he's positive and I know he's angry about it. How could he not be. I'm just wondering how safe he's being. Especially after he told me how he's planning (though I suspect he already has been) to make the money he needs to keep the apartment. I feel really guilty but I can't help noticing then tossing out all the water bottles he leaves behind when we hang out.

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