vivaldiwasasellout wrote:
I really appreciate what you and Mczu said about love and respect, it should be like that. Unfortunately reality is different. I love my father, but I don't respect him and I have my reasons. 
I loved a boy so much that it hurted, but he loved cocaine more than he loved me. So I loved him, but I didn't respect him.
Moreover how many people cheat on their partner once (at least) and then come back. Do you think they don't love their companion? 
How many people accept a rocky relationship, where the partner treat them like a piece of crap. This is love (a bad love) without respect.
You shouldn't be so manichean...
Then neither of those examples are 
love. There's a monumental difference between 'love' and 'infatuation', when speaking in terms of relationships. There's also the need that people sometimes feel to just be with someone, anyone, to fill some sort of void they are feeling in themselves. That's NOT love. 
The example about your drug-addicted boyfriend: Let's say that it wasn't infatuation, just for the sake of the argument. If you 
truly loved him, as you say you did, then you respected 
him, but not the choices he made. We often times misinterpret our feelings but, if you DID love him as you say you did, you would have had to respect him. You can't love without respect. Respecting a person and respecting their actions is a totally different scenario.
Your example about your father should have been addressed in my first post, but we weren't talking about family. The loving of a family member is a totally different dynamic than loving a member of the opposite sex. The love between family and the love between life-partners is not the same. We were addressing the latter.
Guess_Who wrote:Word  
 Love and respect are 2 different things.And whoever does not see it,or do not have much experience,or had much luck with relationships.for me there is no debate about possible.
 
No one said that love and respect aren't two separate entities. I said you cannot love someone without first respecting them, but you CAN respect someone without loving them.
Also, in the examples given above, if they aren't actually infatuation, and are truly love, the loving of said individual would have come 
before things went down hill. All that really says is that people don't know how to let go and say 'enough is enough'.