Imagine you have a loving relationship with your spouse. It's a fantastic relationship that has survived many years, produced children, etc.

One day you discover you have cancer. Not curable, but treatable. About two years later you discover your spouse has been having an extra-marital affair.

You legally separate for about two years. You begin the paperwork needed and plan to get legally divorced within a month when your doctors tell you that your cancer has metastasized and you have a few weeks to live.

Do you hold off on the divorce so that you can die with your children and spouse as a family? Or do you pursue the divorce as a last act, to die separated from the person who betrayed you?