"Respectful attitudes after a relationship ends is mark of manliness." Wish culture would teach it.

[NewJeffCT]

65. In an ideal situation, that would be nice

when I got divorced 20 years ago, my short-lived marriage had no children so it made it fairly easy for me to act like a gentleman and wish her well. And, I sincerely meant that.

I had already gone through a lot of anguish during the marriage, so no point in continuing to dwell on it - I was too busy having fun dating half the single teachers and nurses in the state after the divorce. One time, several months after the divorce was finalized, we had to go somewhere to prove that we were no longer married (DMV maybe?), the woman called our names and asked why we were there, and we both said in unison, "We're divorced" and the woman laughed and said that we both seemed happy about that.

That said, if the situation was different and we had kids involved and one, or both, of us were cheating on the other, I'm sure it would have not ended so amicably, and different people handle things differently.