Okay, okay... before everybody flips out, whenever I hear this "domestic partner" stuff I think of my two maiden aunts who lived together for 40 years before one of them died, and it makes total sense to me for one of them to have been able to use their insurance benefit to pay for the other one... who gives a schumer who it is you're paying for, really.
(However NTS nothing in the preceding should be in anyway construed to in any way imply that fags are not completely revolting miscegenated depraved vile subhuman scum etc. yawn blah bore ad nauseum, of curse...) (or at least the ones on DU are...)
Excellent example and why not? At my place of work, there is a provision for "domestic partnerships" of both the hetero and homosexual varieties. In France, the concept of a "domestic partnership" would include your aunts' situation. They lived to together for years, shared expenses and companionship, etc. They certainly stayed together longer than almost all shack-ups and many marriages.