Hi,
A girl I was recently seeing disclosed to me she has HSV2, and that was why she was reluctant to become intimate.
I appreciated it was really hard for her to disclose this. She told me late at night in bed and the next morning she had to leave very early, so we just said goodbye. (EDIT: she brought it up when we were in bed. we had been kissing and she turned away when i went to become more intimate. she asked is it a problem for you, and i said not a problem in itself, but only a problem if you don't communicate why. and that's when she told me.)
In the next days we were texting and i said i needed time and space to think about things. She said that was fine. I then suggested we get a coffee and discuss things, but we shouldn't do anything intimate for now. She responded saying it wasn't a helpful message.
I then text back agreeing that it probably left us in the grey zone. I messaged saying i didnt see a romantic future, nor should we stay as friends. As a final message, she text back saying she was hurt at how i managed a vulnerable situation.
I see her point of view but I'm unsure how else I could have acted. I didn't want to lie and pretend everything was fine. But maybe I was too vague when I asked for time and space.
How could I have handled this better, if at all?