thanks for the info anna...... i am not planning on rushing into anything. we didnt move fast,, just my feelings hit hard thats all..... we spent a week together just recently and then he had to go back to work. he lives on the resort, so i guess i could tell him im coming earlier then he thinks and i can see what i find...... however taht will be hard as he is taking vacation time when im coming and meeting me at another resort,,,so im not sure how i can just show up unexpected when we are planning together so he can get the week off of work to spend with me. as far as teh visa goes...... it was my idea to have him visit canada if he could....... he wanted me to go back there all the time,,,,, live there too if i could, but i wanted to see how life would be like with him in canada as it is very different so i pushed him to try to get a visitor visa to visit,,,,,,if its so hard i guess i will make the visits there. if i could move there i would, but i told him the dr just doesnt have as many opportunities for me there........ by the way he didnt always work on a resort,,,, only in the last three years prior to taht he was working in a factory in spain and was a dancer for a team even before that,,,,, he has just gone to work at the resort when he got back from his divorce in spain. he pointed out the sankies to me because i was there with friends and he didnt want his sankie friends to hit on my girlfriends because he knew they would take advantage of them. he told us so that my girlfriends would be careful around them.... one of his sankie friends tried something on my friend and he gave him crap for it...... so he wanted us to know about sankies to protecct my girlfriend from them. whether that is some strategie i dont know, but i dont think that sounds like a strategie to me when hes protecting my friends. well ive said enough for now.......