Catching your partner cheating is never a good time. It’s even worse if you contract an STD because of it. But what if they didn’t cheat? What if they were a wildlife volunteer helping Koalas?
Stay with us. A woman posted on r/TWoHotTakes in a three-part thread wondering if her husband actually cheated on her or if she contracted chlamydia through her husband who was working with koalas.
Three years ago, the poster found out she had chlamydia during a routine pregnancy checkup. The woman confronted her husband for cheating after she was told she had chlamydia. They both went on to accuse the other of infidelity but the culprit of the said STD may not be so obvious.
The unsuspecting hero in this couple's personal life turned out to be none other than Robert Irwin – yes, the son of famed croc-wrangler Steve Irwin – who posted a video on TikTok educating people about how koalas carry Chlamydia. The husband pieces together that he did give the his chlamydia but not because he was unfaithful to her but because he was faithful to koalas.
The couple had gone to a music festival in Queensland, Australia back in 2019. Due to the bushfires, many koalas were displaced and roaming around dehydrated. On their way to the festival, the couple found a poor koala on the side of the road.
“One little fella was so thirsty and exhausted he was just holding on to my partner's arm as he drank. And yes, Adam picked this Koala up and gave him a cuddle, and yes the koala proceeded to pee all over his shirt and arm. We laughed it off, moved him off the road track,” reads her Reddit post.
And because they were at a music festival, showers were not readily available. The husband cleaned the koala's piss with bottled water and went on partying.
“Over those days we had sex, A LOT. Yeah, writing this now I realize how gross it all sounds, but that’s the culture of Aussie bush doofs,” she reflects.
Koalas carry two different strains of chlamydia. The most common in koalas in Queensland, Chlamydia pecorum, can not be transmitted to humans. But the second strain, C. pneumoniae can be transmitted to humans through koala’s urine or feces.
Either this man is the best liar ever or he is the most unlucky guy in the world.
The poster is still trying to piece that together.
“But now, how do I wrap my head around that my husband did in fact give me chlamydia, but from a fucking Koala!!! And how do we undo all the toxic crap that has been between us and move into a healthier trusting relationship???”
It’s a situation that only Australians can find themselves in.
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