It depends how you look at their relationship and the eventual break up. It wasn't about anyone being punished or rewarded; it was about Sam and Mason realizing who they each were as people and what they needed and wanted out of life.
Being in an open relationship was consensual, so any consequences as a result of it were the "casualties" of a war they both engaged in. Sam's outcome was what "she" needed for herself, and Mason discovered that their relationship wasn't what he wanted either. During the scene where the student asked him out for drinks, he declined. It is something that he likely would have agreed to in the past, but not anymore. So, his outcome was the result of what he needed as well.
Sometimes, people need to be alone to figure themselves out, and that appeared to be what he was doing. I kept thinking to myself, that Mason truly wasn't sure of what he wanted and he wasn't sure of himself. We all move at different speeds; Sam was ready to commit and start a family, Mason wasn't. Mason would have been punishing himself to live a lie (marry, have a child) when he clearly wasn't ready. No one was punished, they just broke away from each other to build their lives as each needed to live it.
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