Cold sore scar that has lasted for 2 weeks [skin concern]

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A little less than a month ago, I got a very gnarly cold sore, the worst I've ever had in my life (and I've been getting them since I was a teen). It took an average amount of time for it to heal, 10 days. I accidentally knocked part of the scab off, and the rest of the scab came off the next day when I was in the shower (it was so dangly and loose after the shower that I used a napkin to take it off). No pain, but my skin didn't feel fully healed because it still felt very raw when the scab was removed (sensitive to the touch).Dead skin would grow over the area the cold sore used to be (I guess it was light scabbing?) for awhile, so I kept treating it as if the virus was still active. After awhile, though, my skin was no longer sensitive and dead skin stopped growing...however, I still had scarring.I'm seeing a new guy and I kept telling him that I don't want to kiss him until the scarring goes away. But the scarring is hard for others to see, and I didn't want it to seem like I was avoiding being intimate with him. I didn't want to reject him for the umpteenth time, so since the skin felt fully healed, I allowed for us to be intimate. Though I told him I'm still paranoid, so I wouldn't be putting my mouth on any private areas.Halfway through us having sex, the area where the scarring was felt irritated (after rough kissing). This sent me into extreme paranoia. After sex, I checked my lip in the bathroom and the area was a little red and I realized the skin was still a little more raised than the rest of my lip.Today, the morning after, it seems to have gone back to normal (no more redness or irritation), but of course the previous scarring is still there. Now I'm scared I might have passed on the virus to him via kissing (and I'm very happy I decided against putting my mouth anywhere else).I'm reading on other posts that sometimes scarring takes a few months to heal. Does this mean I should avoid kissing him and oral for a few months? It's been 2 weeks since the scab fell off, am I being too paranoid?
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