Exes and Beers: How Maren Morris and Ryan Hurd Proved Divorce Doesn't End Respect

Two years after signing the divorce papers, country singers Maren Morris and Ryan Hurd are doing something that would make most exes’therapists proud: they’re getting a beer together and keeping things light.

On Saturday, May 16, the 36-year-old“Bones”singer posted a snapshot from across a table where Hurd, 39, was mid-scroll on his phone, captioning it with the kind of honest humor only time and distance can bring.“Sometimes you gotta get a beer with your ex and pretend it’s 2015,”she wrote,“Except now you’re coparenting.”It’s a simple moment that cuts to the heart of what makes their post-divorce relationship work: they’re not trying to be anything other than what they are — two people who loved each other, didn’t make it work romantically, but still have each other’s backs.

Morris and Hurd were married from 2018 to 2023 before finalizing their divorce in 2024, and they’ve navigated shared custody of their 6-year-old son Hayes with impressive maturity ever since. In a June 2025 appearance on the“Dear Chelsea”podcast, Morris got real about what that actually looks like.“We’re over a year out now … [and] we get along now and have moved past a lot of it,”she said.“We’re neighbors, and I’m just so fortunate that we have put our son above each other’s s***, and it’s better for the two of us if we’re getting along.”

What’s striking isn’t that they’re friendly — it’s how she articulates the love that’s still there, even when the marriage isn’t.“I’m lucky that we love each other so much still. We have the highest respect, but also there is that devastation that two people [who] love each other that much can’t make it work in the real world.”She’s naming the complicated truth that most people live but don’t often hear out loud: the person you marry isn’t the person you divorce, and that doesn’t make the love you shared any less real.

The mechanics help too. Morris credits Tennessee’s custody court order with taking the guesswork — and the emotional landmines — out of decisions.“The state has given us this split and we have to abide by it, so there’s no,‘Well, do you get Easter or do I?’It’s in writing, and that takes us and our emotions out of it, which is really helpful for both of us.”A beer across a table from your ex sounds casual. But it’s the result of a lot of hard work on both sides to put their 6-year-old’s wellbeing first and let go of the resentment that could’ve calcified by now. That’s not just coparenting — that’s adulting at its finest.