For Women Only by Shaunti Feldhahn

Week 2: Chapter 1 — Your Love Is Not Enough: Why Your Respect Means More to Him Than Your Affection

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Feldhahn opens with one of her most surprising findings — that men need respect even more than they need love — and the implications for how women relate to the men in their lives are enormous. Come ready to have your assumptions gently overturned.

Discussion Questions

8 questions

1.Feldhahn describes giving men two stark choices — to feel unloved but respected, or loved but disrespected — and finding that the vast majority chose to feel respected. Did that finding surprise you? Why or why not?

2.She distinguishes between two types of respect: respect for *who he is* (his intrinsic worth as a person) and respect for *what he does* (his decisions, competence, and judgment). How are these different, and why might both matter to a man?

3.Feldhahn notes that men often feel disrespected without their wives ever intending it. What are some common ways that women communicate disrespect without realizing it — in word, tone, or body language?

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