Like so much else in dating and seduction, getting respect has a very Zen quality to it. One thing I can tell you for sure is that if you go around looking for respect, you're probably not going to get very much.
If, on the other hand, you simply stop giving a fuck and live your own life, in your own world, regardless of the expectations or opinions of others, people will love you for it. And even if they don't, you won't give a fuck, which is really the point here

In the words of Fight Club, "let that which does not matter, truly slide."
The bottom line is: you care way too much what this chick (and probably other people as well) thinks. Why let yourself be defined by other people's perceptions?
Whose life is it anyway?
Your boy,
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