DH just referred to me as "an attractive lady"

[EddieStobbart]

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...

I would be pretty happy with "attractive lady" especially compared to some of these :o There's nothing wrong with being a laydeee, I actually quite like it, though "attractive lady" is a bit Swiss Tony admittedly.

I know DP likes my somewhat bountiful arse, he has to be careful quite how he phrases it though.

I once said to a friend "You are so not as fat as that photo makes you look" She was not happy. I really didn't mean it like that, it just came out...

Oh yes I have heard "handsome woman" (not about me), I think it is a compliment, I think it means good looking and respectable/admirable. An older male colleague once said it about my boss who was very strikingly beautiful.

Mine regularly says, when I've plucked up the courage to actually let someone take a pic of me and am weeping at the result, 'well, no one looks good in photos really, do they?'

When we first started, many many many many years ago, he told me I had lovely legs - just like a footballer's .

My dh always says "you've got fantastic tits love" hmmm.

Ah bless him. It's better than smart or well which obviously means boring and fat.

Neither dh or my dss have noticed that I have changed both my hair colour and style, had my eyebrows waxed and lashes now Hollywood style.

That was 3 weeks ago and nothing!

Dds noticed immediately.

It's genetic

Op your dh sounds a sweetie.

This is brilliant!! Totally brightening up an otherwise shitty day (weather wise).

but it is a bit pointless people posting 'my DH tells me I'm beautiful'. Well done, but you're kind of missing the point of the thread

"I love your ginger hair when it's messy, you look like a lion"

ok....

"you're breasts are massive" (whilst gawping)

"ahh look at your fat belly, it's so cute"

I'm PREGNANT NOT FAT!

Back in my youth, I worked in a pub, I received this outstanding compliment:

"You have really smooth armpits"

After posting the weird comments DP has made about me, I've just remembered an absolute belter that I came out with

He said that someone at work had told him that he looks like Alec Baldwin and he wasn't too happy about it. I said, "don't worry about it, Alec Baldwin looks even better now than he did in the likes of Notting Hill, back when he was young and thin!"

I have no idea why I said that, DP is 6' 2" and is in no way fat! He laughed about it but it was pretty tricky to explain my way out of it with my foot wedged so firmly in my mouth.

I'm rocking at 'Did you eat her?' Oooh it's brilliant!

I once said to DH, 'You're not a legs man are you?'
DH 'No'.
Me, 'Or a boobs man'
DH 'No'.
'So what do you look for in a woman?'
'Personality?' he murmured very quietly. I think he was afraid.

Another time he said, 'You've got a kind face'.

Serves me right for asking I guess.

Mu DH once summed me up as looking like 'a big friendly mum'. This was pre children and I wasn't pregnant.

I bought a dress to go to a do with him when we were first together. Had my hair done, had lost a stone. new dress. Came downstairs and after a slight pause he said 'You look ......very smart'. I cried and didn't go. Fucking smart! I knew when I bought it I didn't really like it. I took it back and got the £150 back. He had a lot of ground to make up after that and worked very hard to do so.

I asked my husband the other day what he found attractive about me. I ask him every now and then.

He told me I am attractive because my eyebrows move a lot when I talk

He is usually pretty good at compliments but sometimes he comes out with some not so great ones.

I never forget the time when he thought I was a size 16 because my stomach didn't look small enough to fit into my size 10's. Apparently he was trying to be helpful. As soon as he said it he started stuttering and then dug himself a bigger hole. I wouldn't have minded but I had just lost a lot of weight.

This will out me to anyone who knows me.

I love to sing but unfortunately cannot hold a note. One day I was singing along in the car, DH turned to me with a pained expression saying "does that sound tuneful in your head?" Ouch.

Even worse DD (5) said recently when I sing the noise makes her head hurt. I'm learning to mime.

My mate has agreed I can share hers...about to go on holiday she mused out loud to Dh that she had better paint her toenails.. The response was " really??isnt that like putting lipstick on a pig?!".....Apparently she " took it the wrong way!" and he meant feet in general were ugly not that she looked like a pig. Obvs.

LAST NIGHT

Me: (in new outfit off to meet friends I haven't seen for ages). Do I look ok?
DH: you look....fine....but maybe different boots?
Me: Oh. Why?
DH: (sheepish) Well they make your ankles look a bit erm...chunky
Me: (changing boots). Are these better?
DH: (surprised voice) oh. Maybe it's the trousers?
Me: (boots off, trousers off). How about now?! Is it just actually the size of my ankles then??
DH: (brightly) your hair looks nice though.

Fucker.

There's an eccentric tramp near us, something of a local celebrity. He loves to engage people in conversation. I heard him yell (extremely loudly) across the road to a rather tweedy woman who'd said hello to him with the rather crushing
"You're still quite a handsome woman"

Still. Quite. Handsome.

I could practically hear her thinking "oh god, kill me now"

Ha ha ha at big friendly mum and alan Rickman

The only "compliment" I can remember getting from DP was that my slinky new dress looked "cosy".

Research in this house suggests DH is shit at compliments.

I just asked him now to give me the first compliment he could think of:

"You're dead clever. And, er, you have nice feet."

Fucker. My feet???

Am impressed with the creativity of some of the DPs here, if they'd actually thought about this stuff I bet they couldn't have come out with anything nearly as soon .

Looked in the mirror earlier, not good.I thinking since I hit my 40s my face has started melting

Soon? No no no, good