You're lucky - from what I can tell, thanks to California wanting to treat us as close to being married as they can, while the federal government of course absolutely feeling like we are not connected at all... So, we have to do our taxes twice - 1040 as single, then our 540 (CA return) as either Married filing jointly or Married filing separately. While I appreciate the "kindness" of California toward domestic partners - heh, the additional calculations - ugh...

Yeah, um, all of that was over my head. The one job I've ever had... I didn't have taxes taken out, got paid cash, lol. I guess that's illegal or something... I just don't understand the entire process and I figure I just don't have to quite yet.