Use With Contempt Or Respect
by Michael Feeley
Some people use you. They study you first. They learn what you want to hear, what you’re missing, what makes you lean in. This isn’t relationship. It’s reconnaissance.
They are patient. They have practiced for years — fooling, faking, extracting. When they get what they came for, they leave. When they can’t get it, they dismiss and leave anyway. Either way, you were never the point. You were the means.
There is a difference between using people and working with them. One is built on contempt — a selfish belief that you don’t matter beyond your usefulness, financial or otherwise. The other is built on respect — a belief that what we build together is worth more than what I alone can take, or take from you.
Contempt is efficient. It assesses, extracts, moves on. Respect is slower. It asks what a person needs and deserves, not just what they hold.
Watch how people climb — careers, marriages, whole lives — some on relationships used and discarded, others built with people who are still there at the top. Lasting. Meaningful. Valued.
Thanks – Michael (he, him)
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This also matters – Respect and Contempt have Consequences.
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