Should Married People Get Tested For STDs?

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It feels good. I'm one day late, but it is not always the swift who win the race.

With that said, Welcome and Thank You so much for reading my blog. As I have written before, I had fallen off in a major way with my commitment to my blog and to finishing my book, but all of that is over. I have made a promise to myself. I will not, however, reveal the deadline that I have set to finish the book until I have sent it to an editor.

But any who.

There are some major changes taking place with my insurance at my workplace. Let's just say I truly understand the importance of universal health care.

While having a conversation with one of my sisters, we attempt to add up the costs of going to the doctor when a really high deductible is involved.

Keep in mind, preventive care is covered. For a woman, this would include pap smears, mammograms and a yearly physical.

But then I tell my sister that I have always, always -- even when I was married -- gotten tested for STDs when the doctor asks. In connection to our conversation about health care, those tests are expensive because it involves lab work...if you were wondering.

Any who, my sister says she doesn't get those battery of tests, and I am shocked and appalled. Why not, I snap.

She stands just as strong in her decision, I don't and I don't think that I need to be tested for STDs yearly.

I don't really delve too much deeper about why she doesn't because the conversation is more so about about my impending health care costs, but after we ended our chat I thought about it some more during my private time.

A woman is playing Russian roulette with her health in my humble opinion if she doesn't. If cheating is as rampant as people say it is then women --- married, single -- should get tested for STDs at least ONCE a year when the doctor provides that option. And, yep, I have had an HIV test.

After all, it is not just single men who cheat on their girlfriend who thinks she's the only one. Heck, married men cheat. And yea fellas, women cheat too.

Thinking more about it, I wondered if just the mere action of being tested reveals an inability in my psyche to trust completely. But errr uhhh, this isn't about any trust issues I may have uncovered LOLOLOL

Sooooo, should married people, women in particularly during her yearly examination with the gynecologist be tested for STDs? Join me here or at www.facebook.com/choosingmrwrong to discuss this!!!