Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s Secret Separation Is Actually……see more

I’m on the record as being a huge divorce stan (as the child of parents who split up amicably when I was eight, I can attest that sometimes the end of a marriage means the beginning of a new kind of happy family—not to mention a definite uptick in Christmas gifts), so it should probably come as no surprise that I was weirdly glad to hear that Will and Jada Pinkett Smith have actually been separated for the last seven years.

Obviously, it would be nice if they were actually happily together (especially in the fallout from The Slap), but I can’t help finding it kind of iconic that they’ve been pulling the wool over the world’s prying eyes for so long. I mean, really, is it our business?

Of course, technically speaking, the couple is not divorced, and they don’t seem to be heading in that particular direction anytime soon. “I made a promise that there will never be a reason for us to get a divorce,” Pinkett Smith says in a clip from her upcoming NBC News special with Hoda Kotb, adding: “We will work through whatever. And I just haven’t been able to break that promise.” Seems…kind of weird to me, I guess, but again, what business is it of mine to decide what works for a pair of internationally famous celebrities