Hi I am Joshy!

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So he's from Quebec, the province but in the Outaouais region, which is one region below where my dad was raised. And you are right, few years ago many cities and town of Quebec have been joined together and Hull-Gatineau are truly two towns that are separated by a street. Hull and Ottawa are separated by a bridge. However, Hull is in the province of Quebec while Ottawa is in the province of Ontario.

Hahaha I see that your boyfriend is part of the club of divorced parents too, honestly I wonder sometimes why people get married if all they'll do is to divorce few years later - yeah I know it's not the case for everyone, but your boyfriend will be able to confirm this: the Province of Quebec in all Canada is the capital of divorce LOL.

Drummondville is in the Monteregie region if I'm not mistaking, closer to Montreal than Hull that's for sure, it's basically about 4 hours apart from where your bf was born.

So i'd assume he's perfectly bilingual? Have you learned a bit of French since you've been with him?

Wow, you're very good at Canadian geography! I'm pretty sure everything you said is on point. And yes, he is completely bilingual (French was his first language). After I started dating him, I took French as my language to fulfill my requirement at my university, and I've managed to pick a bit up between him and that, but I'm not really at the point where I'd like to be. I've never been a huge believer in the language education system of my country, took Spanish for 7 years and didn't retain anything more than a few months after my last class. I know what I have to do, I need to start trying to only speak to him in French to really learn. He comes in a week for a month, so we'll see how that goes. I feel like that's going to be the best way to learn. Most of his family lives in Lac Megantic or Fermont, Quebec. It's EXTREMELY French and many of his family members are monolingual French speakers. I've been to Lac Megantic and it was such a culture shock seeing and hearing everything in French. The only two other countries I've been to are England and Ireland, so Quebec has been my first experience like this. I've yet to go to Fermont though, it sounds SUPER FUN :p I don't know if my boyfriend was pulling my leg or not, but he said that they needed to arrange their buildings and build a wall in such a way that if that wasn't the case, it would be uninhabitable in the winter.

And oh gosh, the divorce!! His parents, his dad's mother, his mom's mother has been divorced twice, his mom's dad has been divorced I don't even know how many times, his mom's dad's current wife had a divorce, his mom's sister and her boyfriend have resisted marriage even after 15 years and 4 kids because they're still not confident it won't end in divorce. Like not to brag or anything because I know the divorce rate is probably just the same in the US and Canada, but like in my family, my mom's dad's parents got divorced, but that's it. And sure, I know a lot of people with divorce in their family, but certainly not to that extend. ALTHOUGH, I will say for his family, they mostly all seem to have been very amicable with no hard feelings. They're all Facebook friends, I've seen his grandma sit at the same dinner table with his grandpa and his new wife, and the grandma and grandpa are talking about when they first met and it was all completely cool. I guess since there have always been a lot of kids involved, it forced them to play nice, but I feel like they are very genuinely friends for the most part.