definitely love because if its there respect will automatically come so I'll chose love in this pole.
Love and respect both is required for a relationship. If you love someone you have respect him as well. And if you respect someone you will definitely love him as well. Cause respect comes when you love someone. You can't respect a person whom you hate.
That's a very good question.I have not really known love in my life so the answer to me would be respect.As long as people respect you then you have dignity and your self esteem is good.But disrespect can make you have doubts about yourself,and it makes me highly aggressive.Having never had love,I demand respect as that is all I have.I feel that a lot of people don't like me but they all respect me.I'll take it,better than nothing.
Personally, I'd like to be loved. Because love makes us more intimate, and people will care about you from deep heart, if you happy, they will also feel happy, if you feel sad, they will confort you right, and make you forget those unhappness and feel good again. If you just respected by others, people maybe won't care about you indeed.
Respect and love do not really conflict. Real love must give you the feeling of being respected, sometimes you just need to view the problem in another way, with an open mind.
As for me love is a locomotive of our life and the life itself in the Universe. I mean that we should be thankful to love for the world around us and respect is an artificial component of our reality and shouldn't be the main goal between these two incomparable stuff.
Respect doesn't mean admiration. You can simply get respect because of fear alone. A CEO might be well respected with his employees, but it doesn't mean they remotely like him/her. They just need to not get fired. You know the drill: co-workers always tend to talk and complain about a boss/manager but get all formal if they show up. You may have power, but you can be alone too. So I'd rather have love. Because with love many things come with it, and the respect from that will be based on good intentions, not unlike what I said above.