DATING 101
A college freshman learns why some rules aren’t meant to be broken
A month into my freshman year of college I started dating my RA. We had to keep it a secret, since our taboo romance was technically against the rules. One weekend, he told me his friend was coming to visit, who just happened to be an ex-girlfriend. I was fine with it, but when he left to run an errand, I seized the opportunity to check her out.
We started talking, and she nonchalantly informed me that he was her boyfriend of over four years! I immediately confronted him, and he gave me a sob story of how she had cheated on him numerous times. They were on and off, but he planned on breaking up with her for good that weekend. Being the naive freshman that I was, I gave him a second chance.
We continued our relationship, and he was the only person I was sleeping with. A few weeks later, I was diagnosed with HPV. After some snooping, I found out that he was sleeping with several other girls, one of whom was another freshman in our dorm! Furious, I confronted him about the STD and demanded to know who he got it from. Instead of owning up to his faults, he silently slid me a piece of paper with a girl’s name on it and left.
It turns out he got it from a mutual friend of ours, who knew we were together. I guess I should have followed the “don’t date your RA” rule after all.
Editor’s Note: 80 percent of women will be exposed to HPV by the time we are 50. Did you know you can be exposed to it without having sex?
