I'm having trouble computing it too .... yet I suppose it can be so.
I mean, you can love someone and yet not entirely trust them, so it must be also possible to love someone and not entirely respect them ....
I'm not meaning, not respect as in treat disrespectfully/rudely/meanly, but more in the sense of having regard for a person's character/qualities, as well as admiration/regard for struggles overcome/efforts made, etc ....
I feel like I get respect for my physical achievements, for my intelligence .... but for my character, just for me, overall, as a person? Heh.
It's a little difficult to maintain a sense of being worthy of respect, a feeling of self-respect, when you either don't know if you're respected or pretty much know you're not .....

I suppose I should have framed some of this as a question in my post, because I am curious to know whether being respected matters a lot to people .... the same sort of question as for whether it matters if people are proud of you or not, I guess. And curious to know whether people feel respected and/or how they know/believe they are ....