Respect, find out what it means to me
Sol takes a look at respect and why it’s so important to any successful sexual relationship.
A friend recently sent me a text exchange he’d had with his partner. They were arguing and he’d ended his message by calling his partner an extremely derogatory term. I challenged him about it and advised him never to say something in anger that he wouldn’t say in a moment of calm.
I spoke to a few other friends and discovered it’s common for people, particularly men, to call their partners all sorts of terrible things in the heat of the moment. I can never imagine even thinking such things about someone I’m intimate with, let alone romantically involved with. Why would I be with them if I had such a low opinion of them even in a time of anger?
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