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No one owes me moral conduct, respect, friendship, love, courtesy, or intelligence. And once I recognized that, all my relationships became far more satisfying. I’ve focused on being with people who want to do the things I want them to do.
That understanding has served me well with friends, business associates, lovers, sales prospects, and strangers. It constantly reminds me that I can get what I want only if I can enter the other person’s world.
@freepatriot i dont think you can have relationships without some sort of mutual respect. Perhaps expecting automatic respect is unhelpful— but if you are given none you cant even engage in conversation to build anything in the first.