 [ Symptoms ] my girlfriend has genital herpes but i love her to pieces for who she is should i stop dating her because of this  my girlfriend of 2 months recently told me that she has genital herpes i did not react badly i tried to support her and tell her that i will not cut her out of my life because of it however i am stuck on what i should now do i love her to pieces for who she is not what she has i want to be able to be with her but i have been worrying a lot about how much we can do with one another before risk of catching it comes in i have no intentions of catching it but i have every intention being with her [ Disease ] that is a bit like going to have your appendix removed before you have appendicitis it is sooo much easier and more effective to prevent an unintentional pregnancy that to take a hormone like plan b remember that preventing conception is just one part of this equation you also need std prevention and plan b will not to that what should be done before hand is for the woman to be one an oral contraceptive or another effective form of contraception and insist that her partner use a condom 100 of the time if plan b was the answer then it would be called plan a