Will Arizona and Callie’s marriage be able to survive infidelity on ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” ?

I have to confess to no longer watching Grey’s Anatomy very often if ever anymore but I’m glad to see it is still going strong.

I’m mostly glad because it prominently features a lesbian couple!

But fans were shocked at the end of last season when Jessica Capshaw’s character of Arizona cheated on her wife Callie played by Sara Ramirez.

Creator Shondra Rhimes said this week that the storyline will play out dramatically when the long-running medical drama returns in the fall.

‘We’re going to get to see a very interesting journey for both women. I’m excited about it,’ Rhimes tells The Hollywood Reporter.

Rhimes isn’t revealing which way things will go but does say this: ‘I feel like one of two things will happen: They’ll end up getting back together and we’ll see this journey and watch them fight through it, or they won’t and we’ll get to see what happens when there’s more than one major lesbian relationship on a big television show.’

Rhimes says that wherever the story goes, her goal is to not have Callie and Arizona be in what she refers to as ‘a lesbian ghetto’ and have them experience some of the same situations the heterosexual couples on the show do.

‘We let all the other characters on Grey’s Anatomy go through everything,’ she says. ‘It puts Callie and Arizona in a lesbian ghetto the way it does when there’s a black character on TV and they always have to be good and can’t do anything wrong. It puts them into a lesbian ghetto if they can only be happy and perfectly married.’

‘Let’s let them be complex,’ Rhimes adds. ‘Let’s let them have the same three-dimensional story lines that every other character on television has. Let’s let people root for them to get back together or root for them to grow apart. Let’s let them have everything that everybody else has; why do they have to be perfect?’

When Callie was married the first time on the show, it was to a male doctor (played by TR Knight) who had also cheated on her. Rhimes says that will play into how the infidelity impacts her.

‘It’s one thing to be cheated on by a spouse once, it’s another thing to have it happen a second time,’ she says.