Different people take different approaches. Some seek to date others with the same status in order to mitigate infection risk. However, you don’t necessarily have to limit yourself to partners of the same status as long as you take appropriate precautions. This includes communicating up front about your status and taking preventative measures to minimize infection risk, which could include using condoms, taking medications that suppress the infection, avoiding intimate contact during symptomatic periods, and/or the uninfected partner getting a vaccine (e.g., for HPV) or taking medication to lower infection risk (e.g., PrEP for HIV prevention). It all depends on the specific circumstances, but incurable STIs don’t have to be the end of your sex and love life by any stretch of the imagination!