How to treat a woman respectfully.....?

Question

besides opening doors,giving up your seat etc.......Is chivalry dead?Do women still appreciate being respected?

Answer 1

Very much so. In this day and age is hard for a person to find someone respectful. I know I appreciate being respected. To a respectful man's dismay, some women do not respect themselves which makes it for them to accept being respected, sometimes they don't know what it is.

Respect is...

Respect is...listening with out interrupting

Respect is...taking your partner's feelings into consideration

Respect is...keeping an open mind

Respect is...agreeing to disagree

Respect is...trying to understand your partner's viewpoint

Respect is...loving yourself

Respect is...trust and honesty

Respect is...giving each other space

Respect is...nonviolence

Respect is...direct communication

Respect is...building a person up instead of tearing them down

Respect is...friendship

Respect is…not pressuring the other person
http://www.itsnotok.org/whatisrespect.html

just somethings, this is not all there is to respect.

Answer 2

There's no secret set of moves to do or to avoid - just be a whole person, sincere, interested in her as a person, wanting her to have a pleasant time while having a pleasant time yourself. Apply the golden rule: don't do stuff to her you wouldn't want done to you. Since people's tastes are different, though, be sensitive to what her emotional responses are. Ask her about herself, be considerate, take her seriously, and respect her wishes. Don't ignore what you don't understand. If she gets upset and you don't understand why, just be sincere with her that you didn't mean to upset her and you don't understand what you've done. Conversely, the rules for treating someone respectfully are irrelevant to their gender, and she should be giving you the same treatment. Don't make yourself a doormat, feel free to suggest activities together and to voice your opinion, just try to keep a balance. Cheers.

Answer 3

It is not a question of opening doors, standing up when a woman enters a room.

Learn to think of them as intelligent beings and not sexual objects to predate up on.

Remember that that often women have a different agenda because of their sex and respect that agenda, at the same time expecting her to respect yours.

You know, these days 'Macho' tends to mean a boorish young man in a leather jacket who quite likes a fight.

But it used to mean a man who was steady, looked after his own, respected other people, but would not back down when he or his own were being bullied.

Most women would settle for the above I think.

Answer 4

of course women still appreciate respect... it should b a thing given without question. opening doors and such is just politeness... you respect a woman by respecting her body, her opinion, her confidentiality. you respect a woman by treating her properly, as in don't use cuss words ALL the time and especially directed at her, don't lay a single finger on her, don't push her around. you respect a woman by treating her rightfully as an equal. Chivalry isn't dead either, it's just rare.

Answer 5

WOMEN appreciate chivalry. GIRLS do not.

Feminists MOSTLY killed chivalry. Sorry. Blame b***** like Steinem for that.

I hold the door for not only my wife but other women too. I give up my seat if a pregnant or elderly person needs it, I let people in in traffic, I help if I see someone struggling to carry something, I stop my car and help push someone out of traffic if their car is broken down.

Unfortunately, women so rarely encounter this anymore they think I am some sort of weirdo for offering and sometimes freak out. Sad but true. Men have been MOSTLY reduced to two types : jerks or wimps. I was in the wimps category for quite some time while al lthe girls dated the jerks. I had been told from maybe 1978-1993 that women didn't like chivalry, they didn't want to be treated like "ladies", they didn't want guys to do sweet things for them and hold doors, carry heavy stuff, etc. Like a fool I (and MANY other guys) believed it. I finally smartened up.

One time I saw a woman who just couldn't get her 2 year old to stop running around in a parking lot while she was carting a TV out to her van. I corralled the kid (she was alarmed, at first - rather him be hit by a car?) and I loaded the TV in her van. I think she was shocked that I wasn't trying to have sex with her or something, that I was really just being a nice guy. Sad that she had likely never seen that before.

I also came across a woman who's car was broken down in the center lane of a three-lane highway, causing a major traffic backup. She was hysterical inside her car and thought someone would hit her and she was scared to get out. I pulled off the side, stopped traffic in the right lane, and pushed her off to the side. People in the right lane were yelling stuff - what, you can't wait 2 min to clear the road? I let her use my cell phone to call her father and I waited with her until he came. When I left you'd think I was the nicest guy she'd ever met - she simply couldn't believe it - she wanted to give me her number as if she might never find a nice guy again in her life. Her father, however, obviously remembered when guys like that were common and this act was nice, but unspectacular.

Answer 6

Yes, women (generally speaking) still appreciate being respected.

Just talking to us ,
Acting like a gentleman,
Standing up for us,
Trying to understand us,
and treating us fairly are the most common ways to show respect.

Answer 7

waoooo, i really like your question, atleast asomeone thinks to respect someone.ok well you have to be a real man,and if you intending to respect pliz do it from your true heart and im sure your woman will love and respect you more than you would have ever wanted or expected.so take my word and go for it...you ll win.thanks fazi.

Answer 8

we will always appreciate it, respect is something that some women will not even in thier lifetime receive and its a very sad thing, to respect a woman apart from opening doors, listen to her.... ask what she would like to do, how her day was etc but do it honestly and listen to her... this goes very far in my eyes...

Answer 9

yes women definatly appreciate that stuff. you need to be honest, faithful and loyal to her. and the little things you do for her really do make a difference. just randomly buying flowers or something sweet like that is always nice too.

Answer 10

Yes!!! That's how my boyfriend won me over... So romantic