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Thanks for clarifying. It's absolutely true that judges aren't that interested in getting in the way of people who clearly want a divorce, but it's still, as you say, a potential worry when you have to rely on discretion. I'm just envisaging, say, a civil partnership between two women where one is abusive to the other and the victim wants a legal separation, but the abuser contests it on the grounds that sleeping with other women doesn't count as adultery, and maybe emotional abuse doesn't count as abuse, and the judge is squicked out by having to give a legal definition of what counts as lesbian sex, so they end up being forced to stay together. Certainly divorce rights are less photogenic than marriage rights, but I think it's extremely important for same-sex couples to have them.