My girlfriend moved in with me January 1st. Since then it has been a roller coaster ride for us too. Since she's started her new job and I got my old one back, things have been peachy-keen.
Having said that, our long-term goals are still way off. She eventually wants to move back home to Washington state to be closer to her family, friends, and old life. I have no intention of ever leaving Calgary before I retire, if it can be helped at all. So for the time being, we're living together while she's on a work Visa, and for the forseeable future it will stay that way. I realize that January 1, 2011 she can apply for permanent residency and after 3 years, she can apply for citizenship as well as the government will start considering us a common-law married couple, even if we aren't officially married. At that point in time, a breakup will get messy. Fortunately, I am the sole title owner of my condo so she'll never be able to take that from me.
I'm pretty confident that we'll one year go our separate ways. Either pleasantly or forcefully is yet to be determined.
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