DH just referred to me as "an attractive lady"

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This was his response to my whinge observation that he never pays me a compliment (after being freaked by someone commenting that pictures of my younger self look like a completely different person).

AIBU to think is this a bit weird and creepy? And def NOT a stealth boast...

Many years ago, DH and I were playing a game with a friend. One question he was asked was something like, "If Coodle was a fruit, what would she be?"

DH: Ooh, a peach.
Friend: Why's that?
DH: (Proudly) Because of her furry face!

A very, very long silence followed. His face slowly went from proud to terrified. Apparently, he MEANT I have soft, downy hair on my face, which he finds cute. He was trying to be sweet. He failed badly and I still tease him about it now!

My good friend (who, yes, is pretty overweight) visited her grandad, who had been ill for a while. She commented on how thin he looked and he said, "well, we can't all be as fat as you!"

My favourite has always been my ExBF:

"You're beautiful...to me"

It was the considered pause that was the killer.

Shockers - just showed your post to DH, he looked shocked and said "wow, that's brave!" then I looked at him and he said "stupid, I mean, its a stupid thing to say...."

i once asked DH how I looked after getting ready for a night out, he was quiet for a moment then asked "is that fashionable?" in a confused voice....

The MN men really are hopeless, aren't they?
Funny though

I've also got a DH with a great line in compliments. I once asked him what he thought of my outfit and he said "well, it fits"

Did you eat her?! Still howling. Mine occasionally stumps up with 'that's nice, is it new?'. What a turd.

I asked my ex which celebrity I looked like.

He said Alan Rickman. Alan fucking Rickman.

He was completely oblivious to his friends flinching and recoiling as I gave him a cold stare and waited for him to explain his way out of that one.

Current dp did slightly better on the which celebrity do you look like - Zoe saldana in guardians of the galaxy, 'only not, y'know. Green'

Alan Rickman is a very handsome man are you a handsome lady then

Yes he is a handsome man. But I don't look like snape or like I should be trying to kill Kevin Costner.

I think the rationale behind it was we 'both have the same colour eyes' and absolutely nothing else in common.

Alan rickman being a tall, white actor in his 60s mainly playing villains.
Me - small, petite 20 year old (at the time) Indian girl.

Frankly there are few people I look less like

I was recently playing pirates with DS and DH chipped in with 'Mummy's lovely, HUGEEE pirate booty!'

He sheepishly tried to justify it as a compliment. I was having none of it

I feel really lucky reading this thread

DH walked in from work this evening, said 'hello sexy hot wife', and snogged me. This is pretty normal.

I absolutely roared at 'sturdy'

Please God put this in classics! It's making my runny nose run even faster!!

Poor man. Nothing wrong in saying that.

Peach face had me barking!

This absolutely has to be the funniest thread ever

not as dreadful as earlier is just eye-wateringly funny.

This thread is making me be the crazy woman laughing on the train. Not as dreadful as earlier proud peach face and quite good natured i suppose are just hilarious.

DH is good at compliments - does default to 'beautiful' without looking at me but careful management has brought at least honesty!

ExP otoh was just stupid. Once running for a tube, jumped on as the doors close. And he turns and said 'mind you don't get your big arse caught in the doors' The carriage FROZE and you could see all the city boys nervously flicking their eyes up waiting for the fallout. His response to my 'excUSE me?' was a plaintive ' but i liiiiike your big bum?' was NOT big, i was 18, a size 8 and have no hips, a flat arse and skinny legs!

I constantly get told I'm 'hot'….for a ginger! Not sure if people think thats a compliment

My Ex 'complimented' me by telling me I was his least crazy girlfriend Again, not sure how that is a compliment!

ex p "you're no super model (totes am) but at least I'm with you.

yeah he was a not very nice man cunt .

I'm :) :) at some of these.

Whinging about my fat arse for some reason or another - Dh didn't bother with even trying to lie - '' It might be fat but it's MY fat arse''
Yeah cheers for that Dh, made me feel loads better :)

Another time I was running around trying to get ready for work in my knickers and bra and some of those low denier tights that you can see through.
Dh piped up with '' nice arse''
Feeling quite pleased (I'd recently lost lots of weight) but before I could reply to him, he followed with
''You look like a prostitute'' WTF?
He still can't explain what made him say it :)

My husband thinks, 'quite nice' is an acceptable compliment.
However this is an improvement from when we first started going out and he hugged me really tightly and said, 'I could just squeeze you all day, you're so lovely and plump'... Plump?? Cushions and chickens are plump. Not girlfriends and definitely not wives.

valentines day i was naked and said to my dh that my body hadnt changed much in 28 yr s together shame my face looks like a smacked arse..he replied oh well you cant have everything....Anniversary this weekend i cant wait !!

I once got 'Good thing we're both so short-sighted really'.