Interestingly, scientific findings traceable to the work of Dr. John Gottman, professor of psychology, University of Washington, suggest that women absolutely need love and men absolutely need respect. Dr. Gottman research team spent twenty years studying two thousand couples who has been married twenty to forty years to the same partner. These people came from diversed background and had widely differing occupation and lifestyle. One thing was similar with all of them as they talked to each other, Gottman calls it “a strong undercurrent of two basic ingredients: Love and Respect.”
Men need respect more than anything else, in similar vein, a woman knows what real love looks like when viewed from the lenses of God’s word. Women love being loved, in same way, a man adores being respected.
Evans Akpo 