[jspearm1983]

First off, I should say that I now know you need to have the home rules printed somewhere for all to see, but for some reason I didn't think I needed for my home game. (this will be a long post)
My current home game only gets together about every other month. It's a very social home game where we play about 10 hands per hour.
After almost everybody busted out or cashed out, (I was part of the former) I was dealing to the last two players, a guy and a girl, playing heads up at my house. One of the players was a girl who was playing poker for only her second time...ever. But she's very competitive and has read a lot about poker strategies on the internet so she wouldn't make a fool of herself at my house. The girl was up big. Her original buy-in of $20 was now about $70, and she was pumped about it. The guy was up about ten bucks, with a little over $30 in front of him and was down in the dumps because he had more chips about 2 hours earlier. Being as it was my house at 3AM, and I was busted out, I asked them how much longer they wanted to play, and she said she was ready to quit, and he wanted to keep playing. She, being very nice, said she would keep playing because he wanted to. BTW, the guy and girl are really good friends who get in heated arguments a lot (both lawyers). They are both competitive and argue like brother and sister.

THE HAND .25/.50 NLHE ring game.
He was the dealer and she raised $2 preflop, and he called.
The flop was AK8, she bet $2 and he called.
The turn was another Ace, she bet $2, he called.
The river was a 6,the board is now A,A,K,8,6. she bet $2, he went all in for about $25. She called. He flipped over 6,6 and won the pot. She showed A,10. (terrible suckout, bu that's for another post)

Then the guy counts his chips. He's got about $70 now and wants to cash out without playing another hand. After hearing this, she gets pissed, and he tells her "that's the way it is in a cash game, you can leave whenever you want." She says, "I was ready to go and was only playing because you wanted to!"
When he goes into the bathroom, she's still mad and asked me if many people do that. I told her that most people will stay around and play more hands just as a nice gesture. I told her that "my old home game in Lubbock had a 20 minute rule that players had to announce ahead of time that they would be leaving, But I've never mentioned it at this new home game and I can't make the guy sit there and fold hands for 20 minutes when I've never even mentioned that rule before." She agreed, and they both left.

It's too bad the night had to end this way because it was a fun game.

Does a player have to play for X ammount of time after he announces he wants to cash out at your home game?

if so, how long is the time period?

Would, you have done anything different if you were me in my situation?