Thank you to all for your kind words.

Luckygrl7, your post helped me so much. You’re right that it is his dysfunction. He couldn’t bear to be with someone “not perfect”. My friends have all said better to have found out now than further down the road. We were together for 5 months. His previous actions were completely incongruent with how he acted when I told him about my condition. I didn’t expect him to run away. At all.

He’s not going to make things right, and I’ve blocked all contact. Personally, he’s not someone I want in my life after his reaction. My condition is not something I’ll die from; it’s unfortunately something that carries an unnecessary stigma in society even though it’s not causing me harm, except grief over the loss of my relationship. And there’s no cure for it.

Through this anger and grief, I’m trying to decipher what lesson I was supposed to learn. So far I haven’t come up with it. Fortunately I have friends and family I can rely on, although they’re getting tired of hearing about my woes. I sincerely wish I hadn’t met him or had to experience this grief and loss.