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If you’re a woman and you don’t understand how men think or what they’re “about”, then you might be forgiven for thinking that all men want a nice girl to love and eventually settle down with.
Although love is as important to men as it is to women (and sometimes more so), there is something else he wants more deeply and profoundly than love. What is it? SEX, maybe? A good answer but wrong!
What men want more than love, the one thing they want more than anything else, so much that, actually, most men are unaware of it and can’t even express it as a need, is RESPECT.
He needs to be RESPECTED by others before he can even think about love. However, he doesn’t know that. He is almost totally unaware of his great need of respect because nobody ever talks about it and there is no clue in his life (most of the time) that could inform him of it.
However, most men have learned from competing against other boys from school when they were small that being able to achieve goals and gain skills in something, whether it be a sport, a difficult or dangerous activity or by being braver or wittier than others, grants them respect from others. Only when he is able to feel competent to the point that others respect him can he find time to think about other things such as love.
As a woman, you need to understand that treating your man without respect will never win you his heart. So whether it be a mild joke about something he’s not good at or a criticism leveled by a wife to her husband of many years, if the woman is not careful, the man will feel that she does not respect him and this will affect his ability to believe in her love. This will happen if her tone of voice indicates disrespect as if she no longer believes that he is capable of taking care of himself without her assistance.
Of course, that doesn’t mean you have to treat him with kid gloves or never criticize him at all if he makes mistakes. After all, he’s supposed to be a bit tougher than a girl, able to take the rough with the smooth and stand up to criticism. He should take it like a man! However, avoid at all costs the kind of demeanor where your body language or tone of voice are saying, “you’re incompetent”.
Attend to your tone of voice and the words you choose and give him the respect that he needs. If you do that, he will feel that your love for him is genuine and he will open up to you. He will feel that you accept him as a man and from his point of view, that means you can accept his love. So he will give it to you!
So if you want to ensure that you and your man are valuing each other in the way you speak and behave, make sure you respect him first. He will respect you in return and that is the best foundation for a loving relationship together!
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This post was originally published by EZine Articles and is republished here with the author’s permission.
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