At one time, they professed to be Christians. I support them in their desire for a separation, rather than a divorce.
Me too. I’m far from straitlaced but I hate to see divorce, especially in a marriage that has been apparently strong for 40 years. It doesn’t matter that the ‘kids are grown’, my own parents divorced after 25 years and our family was never the same, even though my sister and I were grown, out of the house and I was married with children. I never quite got over the loss of my ‘family’.