After many years of fighting to legalise same sex marriage, I met the love over my life and we were going to be together forever.  There was an age gap that we didn't even notice.  I was 29 and he was 20.  We were together for 5½ years, engaged for a little over two.  We were aiming to get married mid-2020 and had earmarked May as our desired month to marry.  These plans were postponed due to Covid restrictions.  Five weeks after we were supposed to marry, my seemingly fit and healthy, 25 year old fiance, passed away without any warning signs whatsoever.  I later discovered that he had a blood condition that he didn't know about, making him far more susceptible to clotting than other people.  He had developed DVT in both legs and passed away from a pulmonary embolism.

Even though I can't marry my beautiful man in the traditional sense, I'm hoping to enact changes to the law to allow me to marry him posthumously.  It would feel like I'm completely some unfinished business for the two of us.  It is purely for romantic reasons.  I'm still committed to Jyee for the rest of my life and I know I will not be involved with anyone else in the future.  I can't make marriage vows to him, but I want to keep my vow to marry him.  His family can testify to his desire to marry me.

When I talk about Jyee, which is constantly, I hate using the words partner or boyfriend or even fiance.  I want to be able to refer to him as my late husband.  It's the only word that fits how meaningful our relationship was.  We were already de facto spouses for years.  I'm just desperate to be able to call him my husband.  As such, I'm petitioning the Australian Federal Government to enact laws regarding posthumous marriage, that would make it possible for these rare instances where a person loses their fiance to an untimely death, to still go through with their marriage to their soul mate, even if it is after death.  Thank you all so much for supporting my petition.

Robin