different perspectives

Hello, my name is Susan, a business worker, living in France. I used to have a problem with my partner Anna. We are both women and had been in the relationship for about 4 years. It is difficult for others to understand our relationship but we really want somehow register as an official couple on residence just like the marriage. I know some countries allow same-sex couples to marry. But since France doesn't allow the marriage for same-sex couples, we are trying to sign up for Civil Solidarity Pact Act that enables to be recongized us as partners for lifelong. This is very interesting to us because we understand that we are different from other couples but want to be formed a joint life. It doesn't have the rights and responsibilities that formal marriage have but we are no longer considered as a single, so we are very happy to sign up for PACS. I would recommend every same-sex couples to use this form of civil union if there is no law of allowing same-sex marriage in their countries.