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Your Love and Respect Book Is Going in the Garbage Because You Claim a Wife Does Not Need Respect

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Your Love and Respect Book Is Going in the Garbage Because You Claim a Wife Does Not Need Respect

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A reader told Emerson she was ready to throw Love and Respect in the bin because she believed it claims a wife does not need respect. Emerson reads her full letter, then walks through the exact pages she cited to show where they truly agree and where an honest disagreement remains. For anyone who has heard the message reduced to "women only need love and men only need respect," this is Emerson's clearest answer yet, and a call to disagree fairly by representing what someone actually said.

Emerson Eggerichs, Ph.D.

Author, Speaker, Pastor

Questions to Consider

When you disagree with someone, can you describe their view in a way they would agree is fair before you respond to it?
In your marriage, when do you most need to feel loved, and when do you most need to feel respected?
How might Ephesians 5:33 and 1 Peter 3:7 work together to keep both husband and wife from feeling dismissed?
Where might you be reacting to a summary of someone's words rather than to what they actually said?

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