R-E-S-P-E-C-T

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RESPECT. Unconditional respect. Whether the person is loving or not, whether they are the first to admit wrong or not.

It's one of the most powerful tools a woman can own.

From Love & Respect: The Love She Most Desires, The Respect He Desperately Needs by Dr. Emerson Eggerichs:

I have been in counseling sessions with couples, and with her mate sitting there listening the wife will readily say, "I love my husband but don't feel any respect for him." But when I turn this around and ask the wives how they would feel if they would hear their husbands say, "I respect you but don't love you," they are horrified. They exclaim, "I would be devastated!"

I asked one wife, "How long would it take you to get over that?" She quickly answered, "Forever."

The typical wife would be up in arms if she heard, "I respect you but don't love you." That is taboo! She would view her husband as a very unloving human being. Yet this same wife feels she can readily say to him, "I love you but don't respect you." What she doesn't understand is that her husband is equally devastated by her comment and it also takes him "forever" to "get over it." The bottom line is that husbands and wives have needs that are truly equal. She needs unconditional love, and he needs unconditional respect.


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