Dear GhanaWeb,

I’m writing this with a heavy heart. I’m a 37-year-old man and a businessman.

Four months ago, I travelled to the Northern Region for a one-week work assignment. While there, I met a lady who was also working in the same facility.

We got close quickly, started talking, and somewhere along the line, I allowed my weakness to take over. She’s so pretty with a curvy body and she’s absolutely my kind of woman.

I told her I was only around for a short time, and one thing led to another. She was so naughty around me and gave me green flags, showing me how bad she needed me in her bed, so, i ended up having an affair.

It happened a few times before I left. I thought it was just a moment of temptation, something I’d leave behind when I returned home.

In fact, I found a way to end things with the lady when I returned. So, we haven’t even been talking for some time now but life has a way of humbling us.

About two months after coming back, I’ve been feeling sick and weak. I finally gathered courage and went for a test at the end of last month, and the result broke me completely. I tested positive for HIV.

I know deep down that I didn’t have it before traveling. I had done a full medical check before that trip. It’s clear where it came from because I haven’t been with any other lady aside that lady and my wife in the last four months. There was another lady I was dating but we broke up some months ago.

What’s eating me alive right now is that I’m a married man and since I got back, I didn’t protect myself with my wife.

The thought of me infecting the woman who has stood by me through everything is killing me slowly inside. I know if I should start using condoms while being intimate with her, she will start asking questions.

I can’t even look her in the eyes the same way. She’s been laughing, planning our future, and talking about little things, not knowing the storm that’s about to hit her.

I’ve cried, I’ve prayed, I’ve begged God for a miracle, but the truth keeps staring at me. Just a few days of weakness, now my whole life and my wife’s too might never be the same again.

I already hate myself enough. How do I tell her? How do I face her knowing what I’ve done? I need an advice, please.


FG/AE


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