Compared to me, you are ultraconservative.

But from your point of view, she didn't (as far as I knew) run in those circles when we met, or when I fell in love with her.

It was because I loved her that I - not easily, but I did - accepted the cover-story.

But don't presume that I am typical of Canadians. Though most of us have accepted gay marriage (hey! nothing changed - straights are still marrying and the sun hasn't fallen from the sky), my standards of acceptable behaviour are still a little beyond the accepted norm, even in the Great White North.