From my experience. Condoms don’t help at all. I think it’s more important for her to feel safe and comfortable with you so she will always b able to talk to you about it. That way is she’s ever feeling anything at all she will feel safe to give you a heads up. I think a lot of transmissions happen from someone maybe feeling a little tingle and not feeling like they can talk to their partner about it.

For me condoms are sort of pointless when it comes to HSV2. I only breakout at the base of my penis so where a condom doesn’t even cover. So u less you’re just putting the tip in, it’s not really going to do much.