In our endeavor to reject modern society and return to a more righteous time, it is often tempting to imitate what we see from television of the 1960s and earlier. After all, these seem to have been the last "good times". But you must understand, the rot set in long before the 50s. Men did not wake up one day in 1963 and say "Let us abandon our religion and our morality." No, as a disease is not felt until it has taken root, so too societal decay.

Here this gentleman is taking what he sees in television and film and trying to apply it to real life. Is it harmful or even immoral to sleep in the same bed as your spouse? Certainly not. Sleeping in the same bed is good and has benefits. Sleeping in separate beds is also acceptable and there are a multitude of reasons why married couples might elect to sleep in different beds or even different rooms. Recent innovations in the mattress industry have reduced the number of reasons why couples may choose to sleep separately. But that is always a decision to be made by a married couple. 

We must be wary of 1950ism, by which I mean the fanciful belief that everything was hunky-dory right up until Vatican II. In 1913 Vice President Marshall chastised Americans for their faithlessness, and their utter disregard for instilling religion in the youth. "It is high time for American fathers and mothers to have opinions on religion. You wonder why the turkey trot, the tango, and the silt skirt. I say it is because the mothers of this country are not interested in training their children." This was not said in 1958, not in 1933, but in 1913, before the First World War tore Europe apart and ushered in the New World Order. 

Things have been on the decline, speaking about morals, for several centuries now. But we know that there are traditional and moral ways of doing things, and they did not come about in the 20th century. Let us ask our original poster here how he feels about square dances? He'll certainly start whistling a different tune about those. And why? Because he likes them. This is the ultimate interpreter of morality to the modern man: "Do I like it? If so, then it must be good; and if not, then it must be wicked." 

When we contemplate the morality of these more ambiguous matters, we must not only think "Do I like this?" but look into what our clergy and scholars have taught on these matters from old. You will be hard-pressed to find any cleric or scholar who discourages spouses from sleeping in the same bed (and indeed the majority of the population had not the wealth to afford such a thing until very recently), and likewise you will struggle to find any such person condemning spouses sleeping separately. What then must we conclude? In this one matter, it is up to the spouses and they ought to make an informed decision with due consideration of the factors affecting them.