My relationship is genuine and I love my husband, but I have to say I am glad I got PR before conditional visas went into effect (if they do).
This is not because my relationship is not genuine and I am not afraid of posting this on this website even knowing that some if not most people will read this thinking exactly that. That's okay, I don't care what people think because right now, for me, it doesn't matter.
The reason I am glad is because three years is a long time. It's long enough to make a life and a home for myself in a new country, to make friends and put down stakes and burn bridges in my home country. And it's long enough for a healthy, vital relationship to fall apart at the seams and come undone.
I love my husband and I intend to be with him for three years and much longer, I INTEND to be with him for the rest of my life. So many things that I intended to do with my life have not come to pass. That's this crazy little thing called life, that's how it goes.
It's nice to know that, though I don't foresee it happening, if my relationship with my husband dies that I won't be forced to stay in a loveless marriage by some government legislation. Because, in the end, that's all this legislation will do. It will force people to stay in loveless (and sometimes abusive) relationships. Because if you had the choice between staying with your husband or wife whom you have fallen out of love with, and giving up everything you've worked hard to achieve since coming to Canada and going back to a country that you no longer consider home, which would you choose?
right? it's easy to see things from our perspective but what about the ones caught in the middle? who would care about them and their rights? the conditional visas should have some exceptions but how would u prove that or how the officers would b trained to detect those exceptions, that remains to be seen :
