Respect is very important to any relationship. If you’re with a man who doesn’t respect you, he will misuse you and might even abuse you. He won’t be able to show you compassion nor will he bother to try to understand you. A man who doesn’t respect you is selfish. So what must you do? You must respect yourself first and not allow anyone else to disrespect you. Why be with a man who outwardly shows via his actions (and sometimes verbally) that he has no respect for you? You can’t make anyone respect you but you sure can demand it. If the person refuses to give and show you the respect that you feel you deserve, then keep it moving.

On another note, it seems that the younger generation have a bad habit of disrespecting their elders. There used to be a time when a youngster wouldn’t dare talk back to any older person regardless if it was their parents or not. Now, if you say something to a child, he might try to beat you up (just check out youtube if you don’t believe me). What happened to this generation? We’re growing up a generation of kids who don’t have respect for themselves, thus they disrespect others including and not limited to their parents, teachers and other adults.

People in general need to respect each other’s differences. We are all unique.  Time out for disrespecting someone just because their viewpoint is different.

Aretha Franklin said in her hit song “Respect” ‘find out what it means to me.’ What does respect mean to you?