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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We haven’t had widespread gay marriage that long, and I don’t know enough about how married lesbians vary from the hetero marrieds. What happens if you control for age, education, children, income, geography, stuff like that? [/quote]

Again - plenty of sociological research to be done on this fascinating phenomenon.

Women divorce each other at significantly higher rates, while men infrequently divorce their husbands; heterosexual divorce rates lie in between.

Why is this so?[/quote]

Women just care about marital status and defining relationships a lot more than men do.  Women push for marriage.  When they get married they don’t really cheat or engage in super time consuming hobbies nearly as frequently as men do.  When the marriage is having problems, they push for some kind of counseling.  If they continue having problems, they file for divorce.

Social relationships are more important to women for a number of reasons.  Some of it is biological.  Women have higher levels of estrogen and oxytocin.  Some of it is social.  When you have less power in society as an individual, social relationships are much more important and are needed for survival.   It’s more important for women to follow the ‘rules’ than it is for men.

Men generally care less about relationship status, are less interested and take longer to decide to get married, cheat or otherwise act single with much higher frequency,  and are less likely to initiate divorce.  [/quote]

Did you even read the OP? Everything you just said about women is contradicted by the lesbian divorce rate.[/quote]

I did read the OP.  
Women just care more about marriage than men.  When women are very much in love, they want to get married. When it isn’t working, they want to get divorced.  
When men are in love, they want to move in together.  Gay men are generally together much longer before they get married.  
When things aren’t working in the relationship, men cheat, throw themselves into work, etc.  They don’t tend to get divorced.

How is this contradicted by the lesbian divorce rate?

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Seems like a string of assumptions on your part, PP.[/quote]

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