My father was a great man. He treated my mother as his equal and consistently supported her in her all of her endeavours. When she started a new business, he provided all of the seed funding to her and helped her get it off the ground. When she was working hard at the business, he'd take care of us kids on top of doing his regular full time job. He kept a cool head and even when my mom divorced him and took everything, he was always kind and always respected her decisions. After their divorce, even though he was impoverished and my mom did get everything, he faithfully paid his child support, and never said a bad word about her to us. My dad was truly a great man and a role model.

I have been thinking recently about how my dad passed on his ideas about healthy relationships. I don't remember him ever saying in words what he thought a good relationship was or what I should or shouldn't do.
What I do remember is him never talking down to my mother or treating her like any less than a true partner. I don't remember him ever telling sexist jokes or degrading women or making any generalized comments about women.
I don't remember him telling me that I could or couldn't be anything because of my gender.
The thing my dad really did for me was beyond words. He just demonstrated respect for women in his daily words and actions.