Time was when I remarked from the peanut gallery that same-sex couples would not find same-sex marriage the panacea they imagined. Indeed, there were other, better and more precise ways to craft the rights intended for a relationship without formal marriage. With the "marriage" alternative, of course, the law gratuitously supplies a bundle of rights and obligations, whether or not the participants want (or even understand) them. Also, of course, the marriage relationship confers expansive jurisdiction on the domestic court when things go south. Temporary orders typically put one spouse out of the home, while bitter disputes over division of marital property and custody issues become the province of the court, often for a period of many years.
Here we have one such instance. The marriage lasted only about four years, and now the once-happy couple can't seem to get along. But it was a marriage, and "self-help" alternatives are limited by those "law" thingies, and the powers of the courts. Just doing whatever one pleases, even from orbit, may not pass muster (and, as illustrated here, may even give rise to criminal issues). How fortunate for these two that evolving norms and fortuitous Supreme Court rulings enabled them to enter into their legal marital relationship.
Welcome to Hell, ladies. Enjoy your "rights."
https://nypost.com/2019/08/26/nasa-astronauts-estranged-wife-speaks-out-about-space-crime-allegation/
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