rbha311: I think repect for your partner comes even before love starts. I could not love someone if I didn't start the relationship off with respect. There should be endless understanding, trust and faith in the other person. These qualities sound a bit too much to be instilled in a relationship all at once but whats a relationship worth without these pillars to hold it up...it's bound to crumble sometime or the other.
Twaddle, if sex isnt good nothing else matters, if the sex is good you can work on the rest.