when I think about respect, Aretha’s words beat out in my head ‘R-E-S-P-E-C-T Find out what it means to me!’ I know it means the world to me and I need to be able to respect someone to have a relationship with them. Of course respect starts at home, and this means that we must respect ourselves. Then we know when we are not being treated with respect in relationships, it then registers that there is something wrong. If we have no respect for ourselves, then being treated disrespectfully by others may not even register that this is not appropriate.

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The other day I read an article called ‘Study may explain roots of empathy’ which made me think about how close we should be with people or not? CHICAGO (Reuters) – ‘When people say “I feel your pain,” they do not mean it literally, but certain people really do feel something that appears to be an extreme form of empathy, British researchers said on Sunday.’

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