Respect is more than holding open a car door for you and pulling out your chair at restaurants. It’s more than walking up to your door to pick you up for a date instead of honking his horn from the driveway.
Respect is saying more than saying please and thank you, sir and ma’am. It’s more than practicing good manners at the dinner table and treating waiters with kindness.
Respect is showing up to your mother’s house with flowers during a holiday. It’s offering to pick you up and drive when he knows you’re tired. It’s calling you instead of texting when you have to talk about something serious.
Respect is sending you a text when he knows he’s going to be late, so you don’t sit up wondering where he is or if you did something to make him upset. It’s keeping you in the loop, because you’re an important part of his life and you deserve to know whats going on.
Respect is listening to your side of the argument, even if he completely disagrees with it. It’s letting you speak your mind instead of screaming over you. Telling you the you are wrong. It’s communication and compromise.
Respect is being honest with you, even when the truth hurts. It’s telling you what happened, even if you’re not going to like what your hear. It’s being completely truthful to you- no exceptions.
Respect is treating you the same way, whether you’re wearing jeans and a hoodie or a skirt tight dress. It’s realizing that a woman isn’t defined by how she looks or what she is wearing- and understanding that her personality is what makes her who she is.
Respect is introducing you to his friends as his girlfriend. It’s defending you when his mother makes a rude comment about you. It’s deleting all of his dating apps, because he doesn’t need them anymore.
It’s doing the little things that mean the world.
Respect is just as important as love in a relationship, because it shows how much a person cares about your wellbeing, about your happiness.
And if he doesn’t respect you, then he doesn’t deserve you!
