respect doesn’t announce itself, it shows up in the smallest of ways, boring moments, the ones that don’t make good stories but make a good life.
he remembers the thing you mentioned once, in passing, weeks ago…
he doesn’t make you audition for the care you already deserve..
he’s the same man in the group chat that he is at your kitchen table..
he lets you be right.. he doesn’t need to win where you are right… to feel like a man…
when you’re upset… he gets closer instead of colder…
that’s the surface and if you’ve never had it, even the surface feels like a lot… but respect on the surface is easy to fake for a seaon… the real test is what a respectful man does when it costs him something… when your boundary is inconvenient… when your growth changes the arrangement he got comfortable in.. when you need something he’d rather not give…
that’s where you find out what a man is actually made of. and i want to walk you through all twenty of the signs, properly, the ones that separate a good season from a good man.
and when you come inside, i’ve left you two things to keep.
DEAR AUGUST, a thirty one day devotional to walk you home to yourself, one day at a time. and the respect audit, the twenty signs turned into a checklist you can actually score him against, honestly. both are waiting for you the moment you walk through the door.
