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Making someone fall in love with you by force, is not respect. Manipulating someone to break up with others and to be solely yours, wouldn’t earn you respect. Lying, cheating behind your partners back or your friends back, backbiting and spreading rumors about them, wouldn’t earn you respect. Interfering too much in their personal lives, their family’s life or their personal details, isn’t going to earn you respect. What would earn you tons of respect is allowing the person to be as they are and helping them out, as and when they need.

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Draw your lines:

Respect is all about understanding the person, the way they live, their friends, their family, their social obligations, their personal lives and not interfering with any of them. you could be a pro at solving issues, but unless you are asked to help it shouldn’t be a pro active helping hand from your end. This would be interfering in their matters and invading their private space, which would lead to disgust and indifference, not earning respect.

Be there for your friends when they need you, and if not possible in person, always call, text, SMS or whatsapp and email, but let them know you are there in spirit and care for them. this would earn you a lot of respect, since you have from the bottom of your heart shown that you care.

Finally, don’t be a drama queen when volunteering to help and to show respect, this would be hypocrisy. You need to be polite, loving and non-pompous when respecting the next, or else the whole point of mutually loving someone for who they are, is lost. Be a friend who cares, be someone who knows the meaning of respect!!

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