Multi Name Household Best Practice

[mneimeyer]

A client organization I work with forwarded this to me and basically said "we don't want this to happen here"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sue-kerr/shes-my-partner-not-my-si_b_4591181.html

Are there any recommendations on "Civi Best Practices" on this sort of thing. I can't really wrap my head around a way to approach this... and Google/searching hasn't brought "enlightenment".

Caveat: This might be exactly what Households are supposed to do, but I've never had call to work with Households because it is usually enough of a "battle" to get our clients to use a "real" CRM system at all.

Thanks in advance!

Matt