After everything that has happened with SR39 and my unprotected sex nightmare, it seems a bit ironic that I had a very open conversation with Alpha Boy regarding sex. We had the conversation about a week previous to my incident with SR39. At the time, it just seemed like a very normal father-son conversation.
Our conversation began during a Sunday afternoon drive. As I’m driving, I realizing that Alpha Boy is reaching the next level of having a social life. When I surf his myspace, it’s full of high school girls flirting and leaving racy comments. And like most high school boys, he’s loving the attention. One of my biggest fears is him repeating some of the mistakes that his mother made (before I met her). So I constantly talk to him about staying focused, making good decisions and using his big head/not the small one.
So after talking about teen pregnacy, we began to discuss STD’s. He abruptly cut me off and said he learned about them in health class. I smiled and said, “maybe they didn’t say it like I’m about to say it”.
“If you end up having sex.. make sure you use a condom 150% of the time. Why? Because you can’t afford have baby at your age and because you don’t need to be a teen dad. The other reason is you need to understand that every girl out there isn’t honest about her intentions and desires. You could end up with a STD that affects your health for the rest of your life. It could start out as simple as crabs and be as serious as Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Herpes and even HIV. And some of those affect you where you have to take medication for the rest of your life.”
His expressions turned from a know-it-all, to a expression of shock. He asked me why the school or mom didn’t tell him this. My reply was, “maybe because your dad is single & dating.. so my perspective is a bit different”
Of course, I didn’t realize I would have a up and close personal experience within the next few weeks. Now, I’m dealing with feeling like a hypocrite. But I’m not perfect and hopefully my good efforts will pay off.
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