Abuse/Incest Support

Abuse/Incest Support: "Hi I have met a partner who had been heroin addict for 7 years or there abouts and has Hep C. I was wondering what harm has the use of the drug had/will have on their health. And I know that Hep C is blood-to-blood transmission but is there any other risks for me contracting it? Say, if we both had cracked lips and kissed? Or menstrual blood etc. And what about our children, anything to be concerned about here?

Also there is the stress element. She gets overwhelmed quite easily about little things and says she feels like using drugs when she is like this. ALthough she says that she doesn't think she ever would seriously. How should I approach this problem? She doesn't really believe in herself and wants to please everyone so that is over taxing too.

The reason she got onto heroin is that her first sexual intercourse experience was a brutal rape. So she had/has issues with that as well. She felt so awful about her body appearance, that men were staring at her breasts that she got a breast reduction. Which I can understand to certain degree, they're still quite noticable (big) and she is still uncomfortable with them. I want her to feel comfortable and not to worry about anyone else's opinions so much and to love herself as much as I do.

All this may sound a bit naiive("

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posted by Robert Heard at 9:27 AM