Marriage and health are closely related.[1] Married people experience lower morbidity and mortality across such diverse health threats as cancer, heart attacks, and surgery.[2] There are gender differences in these effects which may be partially due to men's and women's relative status.[3] Most research on marriage and health has focused on heterosexual couples, and more work is needed to clarify the health effects on same-sex marriage.[1] Simply being married, as well as the quality of one's marriage, has been linked to diverse measures of health.