Civil Partnerships: Cliché Fans Joy As 'Honeymoon Over' Headline Returns

Today the Office of National Statistics released the latest figures for Civil Partnerships.
There were two angles on this.
First the bad news; 'Honeymoon over for many same-sex couples as 'divorces' double' (Daily Telegraph).
And now the just as bad news; 'Civil partnerships in 12 per cent decline' (Independent).
Mind you it was great news for the Christian Institute, who billed it as a double whammy; 'Civil partnerships plummet as dissolutions double.'
Hurrah.
Fagburn would like to point out we have been here before.
'Honeymoon over for gay marriage as fewer tie the knot' Evening Standard, August 2009.
'Honeymoon over for 'gay marriages' as number of civil partnerships is halved in a year' Daily Mail, June 2008.
'Honeymoon is over for gay weddings' The Observer, February 2008.
'Honeymoon over for gay marriages as number of civil partnerships plummets by 50 per cent' Daily Mail, February 2008.
It's clearly been a long honeymoon.
Let's look at those civil partnership figures in full:

2006 - 16,106
2007 - 8,728
2008 - 7,169
2009 - 6,281

Fagburn has just calculated (on his fingers) that if the decline continues at this rate, NO-ONE will be registering a civil partnership by 2017.
And with dissolutions doubling from 180 in 2008, to 351 last year, that means... actually I can't work out a completely unscientific frightening factoid out of that one on my fingers.
Not that any of this matters as they'll legalise same-sex marriage long before then.
Won't they?