It's been an interesting week - as a same-sex married person! It's been fabulous to receive the responses to our news, especially from our non-gay friends. Overall, wonderful support and joy... as well as presents! that really surprised us. Of course, for years we have been giving gifts to our friends as they get married. But it never occured to us that we might ever be on the receiving end of the bounty.

I think that married people can, now that we are married too, support us in a way that is familiar to them. We all know the rites and rituals to follow when someone gets married - say congratulations, send a card, buy a gift. They never knew how to celebrate our partnership before - we never had a specific moment in time that allowed us to annouce, hey, we're domestic partners! or hey, we're in love!

Barbara's going to write an article about this, which I will post here when it's done.

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