Sponsorship Evaluation Question about employment

[Otilia3107]

Hello everyone. So I'm filling the sponsorship evaluation and I'm not sure what to write in the employment part and addresses. Here is my situation:
I was unemployed until 3 years a go ( my late boyfriend was supporting me financially and than he passed away)
After he passed away I needed to clear my mind so I was traveling alot. I spend 5 months in Europe with my family and than I moved in Mexico where I lived there for 8 months. While I was traveling I started working as a freelance marketing consultant and web designer.
Than I met my husband fall in love and decided is time to settle down and come back to Canada.
I did my taxes this years for the pass 2 years.
Now what should I write under employment?
Also when they are asking me for addresses what should I write? Is it going to sound strange because I lived in another countries? Or I shouldn't even mention that?

Thank you

 

[canadianwoman]

You can say you are a free-lance marketing consultant and web designer. Being self-employed is fine.
You can list 'traveling' and 'housewife' in the section where it asks what you were doing.
For your addresses, if you kept a permanent address in Canada while you were abroad, you can list that, but you should also attach a letter explaining you were traveling and living abroad. If you didn't have a permanent address in Canada, just list the addresses you did have. For the time you were traveling, you do not list each place you stayed - just say you were traveling, and in what country.

 

[Otilia3107]

You can say you are a free-lance marketing consultant and web designer. Being self-employed is fine.
You can list 'traveling' and 'housewife' in the section where it asks what you were doing.
For your addresses, if you kept a permanent address in Canada while you were abroad, you can list that, but you should also attach a letter explaining you were traveling and living abroad. If you didn't have a permanent address in Canada, just list the addresses you did have. For the time you were traveling, you do not list each place you stayed - just say you were traveling, and in what country.

I'm not sure I should write housewife as I wasn't married to my late boyfriend and we didn't live together neither. Also a friend of mine advice me not to get into to much details about my pass relationship as they might say that I was not mentally stable or ready to get into another relationship because I was still grieving. Basically he told me to try to don't give them any reason to question my relationship with my husband because they might take longer and ask me more questions.

 

[canadianwoman]

Since you weren't living together, you were not common-law, so you don't have to mention that relationship really. You can just put you were unemployed during that time, or explain if you had freelance work.