Re: Physical relationships and marriage
I also think he should get himself tested before he gets married. STD’s are real. He needs to have some sort of proof that he’s not carrying anything around.
I think he needs to understand one thing:
IF this girl accepts him with all of his baggage…HE needs to work his butt off to walk a straight line. Not expect the girl to be humble and keep forgiving him. He will have to squash his ego and realize…now that he’s opened up about his past…there’s no guarantee of anything and his marriage will require A LOT of work. He should never have told her, realized his error and corrected himself BUT now that he did…he should be prepared to live with the consequences.
If she didn’t know, she would have trusted him right off the bat. Now that she knows…he will have to work to build her trust in him. That’s just how it is. Live with it…not fair but such is life when you make stupid choices.
There will always be a certain amount of doubt in her mind about his fidelity and it will take a while for it to go away…he will have to prove himself to her. Again, such is life.
If your friend is not ready to give his lifestyle up, he needs to take a step back from this marriage or at least postpone it. Otherwise, he will be in a bigger mess when he’s stuck in a miserable marriage with a partner who cannot trust him.