AFTER LOVE, INEVITABILITY: Brian McGrory

Probably it was inevitable, but still, it seems kind of quick. Not six months into the era of gay marriage in Massachusetts, the first divorce filings by gay and lesbian couples have unceremoniously landed in local probate courts. ...

Love may be a many-splendored thing, but it's often a temporary thing as well. The divorces reveal less about gay marriage than about the human condition. People fall in love, they fall out of love, and a bad marriage can be the loneliest place on earth. ...

Their names were part of the filing, but the decision here is to leave them out of print. The two men only did something that millions of heterosexuals have done before them. They came to their senses -- I mean, they concluded that they should no longer be married.

"Our interests have grown in different directions," the two of them wrote on the filing. "Prior to our separation, differences in personality affected our well-being." ...

Iannella says "these cases will be treated the same as any other." But he adds a worrisome twist. Under his reading of the law, any couple living out-of-state at the time of their divorce is required by Massachusetts statute to seek the divorce in the closest jurisdiction. But other states will refuse to recognize gay marriage, meaning they won't grant a divorce.

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