What does it mean to be truly respectful of another living being? It is to be aware of their way of being in the moment and allowing them to be this way without demanding or expecting of them anything else. You acknowledge their way of being and find your own way with it by being your self truthfully.
If you demand or desire respect of an other it is because you are afraid to accept their reality of the moment – and your own.
Also, you can seemingly respect each other from fear of facing the truth of who you both are and are together.
To be truly respectful is to be existing no longer in the reality in which respect or no respect exist. You are simply aware in your self and of life and beings around you and move in accordance and in a state of inner harmony with the reality of the energy of the present moment.