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Thursday, December 15, 2005

Lesbian Notions

Posted by on December 15 at 9:40 AM

Why are lesbian relationships so damn unstable?

The first same-sex couple in the United States to receive many of the legal rights of marriage are in the process of dissolving their historic civil union in Vermont. Carolyn Conrad asked a Brattleboro court in October to end her civil union with Kathleen Peterson after five years and that their home and property be split up… “All I want to say is that the civil union was a big source of pride for me and now it’s not,” Peterson said Wednesday night.

Feeling’s mutual, Kathleen.


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Getting out of the stupid relationship I'm in now would actually be much fairer and easier if we could have been married. Divorce makes a lot more of it into a business/legal decision. I've said all along that we're not just fighting for gay marriage, we're also fighting fo gay divorce.

Agreed. But how come every time you hear about some awful same-sex couple's custody dispute, it's a lesbian couple? And the first "gay divorce" in Canada? A lesbian couple... I'm not saying gay couples don't break up, but... it seems that we don't hit the papers when we do, or wind up in court fighting over the kids (and using homophobic laws to deny the non-bio parent's rights, as many lesbian bio-moms do during custody disputes.) What gives?

I don't know, Dan. That's one of the things that makes me think I might just go back to guys. Women are crazy. (myself included, I am fully aware of that)
In one case I know of, the bio-mom went along with what her lawyer suggested, because the non-bio parent left, didn't make any effort to see the kid, and then a year later decided to file for joint custody. So the lawyer thought that instead of arguing the facts, it would be easier to just say she never was a legal parent at all... so lawyers suck, too.

Or maybe it's some sort of biological female hormone thing.

I don't know. Men were much easier to deal with.

But how come every time you hear about some awful same-sex couple's custody dispute, it's a lesbian couple? And the first "gay divorce" in Canada? A lesbian couple

It's news, s'all. That and lesbians are, well, more interesting to your average hetero guy.

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