Meet Your Son’s Deepest Need for Respect

More times than I can recall, a wife has attended our Love and Respect Conference and connected the dots that applying respect to her son has also been deeply needed at home.  There is even a Crazy Cycle of its own that spins between a mother and her son: without respect a son reacts without love, and without love a mother reacts without respect. I have heard many testimonies like the one below that show the life-changing results that come when a mother understands and begins applying respect to her son as well.

My husband and I met you at Soulfest in Gilford, New Hampshire, a few years ago. At the time, I was struggling with my teenage son. I just wanted to let you know that a five-minute conversation with you (you were on the way to your car) changed my life.

After we spoke, I went back home and began treating my son with respect, even when we greatly disagreed. It was life altering in our relationship.

Now six years later (my son, Andrew, is twenty-three), I have a healthy, loving, and wonderful relationship with him.

THANK YOU . . . from the bottom of my heart.

To hear more stories like Amy’s and to understand the principles behind how respect can affect the relationship between a mother and her son (of any age), read my book Mother & Son: The Respect Effect.

-Dr. E