@woodsmoke Titanic does this thing which Hollywood does a lot; Making the losing male love interest into an unlikeable character, a "bad man", someone the audience will have a hard time empathising with. This serves to relieve the female protagonist of any real moral dilemma, thus relieving her of responsibility ("he was a piece of shit anyways").

The reason they do this is because that sort of scripting is appealing to women. Yes, it makes for an uninteresting, crap movie, but it's fascinating in the sense that it mirrors the sort of after-the-fact scripting a woman will tend to write in her own head, with regards to ex-husbands and such. One can say a lot about Hollywood, but they do know how to appeal to normies.

One of the reasons I genuinely enjoyed The Worst Person In The World (2021) - which is also sort of romance movie from the female perspective - is that it didn't do just that. All the male love interests in that movie are good, charming, likeable guys in their own ways. This leaves the female protagonist with some actual hard decisions to make, decisions that are going to hurt people the audience cares about, knocking the halo off of the female main's head.

Hollywood is notoriously bad at writing interesting female main characters, because Hollywood doesn't allow for actual negative, unlikeable traits, or real guilt, in a female character.