They were the first to do it here, but it didn't last / myLot

Toccoa, Georgia

June 5, 2018 4:25pm CST

Gay marriage became legal here in Georgia in 2015. I remember seeing specifically in our local newspaper, The Toccoa Record, that a lesbian couple (who my younger son knows and worked with at his part time job), were the first to legally wed here in our Town and County. They did it at the Court House Downtown with some kind of Justice of the Peace. Well, guess what my son told me the other day since he knew them? He learned through the grape vine that they had broken up! Since, they were legally wed, that means they got legally divorced. Wow, is what I said to him. I reminded him of how those two were the first homosexual couple to legally marry in this Town in 2015. I was real surprised to hear about them breaking up.

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Louise Crisologo

@mlgen1037 (29886)

• Manila, Philippines

6 Jun 18

Sometimes I find it funny when some people insist on something that they are passionate about then they got it, just to find they will be the first ones to lose it.

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Anne Marie Guyer

@LeaPea2417 (36553)

• Toccoa, Georgia

6 Jun 18

Exactly what I was thinking.

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Louise Crisologo

@mlgen1037 (29886)

• Manila, Philippines

7 Jun 18

@LeaPea2417 Thank you, Anne. Maybe I was reading your mind at that moment.

PLETHOS

@Plethos (13560)

• United States

5 Jun 18

so did they become the first gay couple to divorce?

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Anne Marie Guyer

@LeaPea2417 (36553)

• Toccoa, Georgia

6 Jun 18

It looks like it, in our town.

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PLETHOS

@Plethos (13560)

• United States

6 Jun 18

@LeaPea2417 - gotta love them for making a lot of firsts!

@mayka123

@mayka123 (16583)

• India

6 Jun 18

Many marriages go sour. Wonder what was the reason for this break up?

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Anne Marie Guyer

@LeaPea2417 (36553)

• Toccoa, Georgia

6 Jun 18

I am wondering that too.

Eva James

@wolfgirl569 (96105)

• Marion, Ohio

6 Jun 18

Sad to hear as they were the first. But it can happen to anyone

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Anne Marie Guyer

@LeaPea2417 (36553)

• Toccoa, Georgia

6 Jun 18

That is true.

Timea

@tzwrites (4835)

• Romania

5 Jun 18

Just shows you that all relationships can go sour...people are always going to be tough to deal with

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Anne Marie Guyer

@LeaPea2417 (36553)

• Toccoa, Georgia

5 Jun 18

I agree, it doesn't matter if you are gay or straight, many unions do not last.

august

@august18 (3907)

• Tunisia

5 Jun 18

I wonder if two men get married,then divorced who pays alimony in this case ?

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Anne Marie Guyer

@LeaPea2417 (36553)

• Toccoa, Georgia

5 Jun 18

That is an interesting question. I wonder that too.

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caopaopao

@caopaopao (12395)

• China

6 Jun 18

I respect gay people. I think they can get married like normal people, and of course they can get divorced.

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Courtney

@Courtlynn (66918)

• United States

5 Jun 18

that's sad they ended things, but maybe its for the better, for them. (:

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Courage7

@Courage7 (19633)

• United States

6 Jun 18

Yes that is life..it is the same on both sides of the fence, once you get fed up of someone, divorce is the answer. But thats good they have the right to do so.

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Jessa Bumagat

@Jessabuma (31700)

• Baguio, Philippines

5 Jun 18

This is not legal in Philippines but there are many transgenders who want to go abroad just to marry their partners.

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