Recently I was experiancing a sore bump on my lip. I was bothered by it but did not think much about it. My boyfriend assured me that it was nothing along with a kiss. That weekend I saw my mother who very bluntly told me it was herpes.This was very shocking and depressing knowing that I may have inadvertingly passed it onto him; the very thing that caused me to get it. I am half way through my first year in college and i have no idea where i could have picked it up... i found this website which i thought was helpful with explaining this virus but some of the info about spreading oral to genitals and genitals to oral was incorrect as seen at http://www.herpes.com/Transmission.shtml besides that, its nice to know how many people out there are having the same feelings and problems that I myself am just beginning to deal with...