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To ask you what was the nicest thing anyone has said to you?

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benefoots · 16/06/2015 12:13

Following on from the tactless thread, maybe something to cheer us up.
On just giving birth to DS. DH DM DF & DMIL all in delivery room making a fuss of DS.
My DF walked straight up to me and said "I am so proud of you and I have never seen you look as beautiful as you do right now".

OP posts:

MitzyLeFrouf · 16/06/2015 12:53

DS once told me I was more lovely than a Flump.

Adorable! The Flumps are pretty damn lovely.

MomOfTwoGirls2 · 16/06/2015 12:53

Bit different,

During hospital stay this week, a trainee nurse showed real kindness to an elderly patient, who earlier was quite difficult for some of the other nurses. The patient responded really well to the kindness.

I was in bed opposite, and when she finished I told her that she was very kind, and that a little kindness goes a long way, and that she was great at her job. She had tears in her eyes and said it was nicest thing ever said to her.

I was so glad that I pushed myself to make the comment.

steppemum · 16/06/2015 12:55

MomOfTwo - good for you. I bet she doesn't get many positive comments, you probably made her day.

marshmallowpies · 16/06/2015 12:56

The morning my DD1 was born, we rang my DF, as my DM was away (planned CS, they knew the baby was coming that morning) and he proceeded to tell me all about his morning and the walk he'd been on and a funny thing that happened with a dog - and didn't ask how I was and how the baby was. Now I know that sounds bad, but my dad doesn't really do emotion, and I realised he didn't really know what to say, but I could hear in his voice how happy he was.

My DM, when we were a few months into parenting DD1 and having all the usual troubles and sleepless nights - but becoming aware that she was really quite an easy baby compared to some - said 'I think it's because you two are both so calm and don't get stressed, it's rubbing off on her'.
Of course it's been quite different with DD2 the clingy screaming limpet baby, so I don't think we are some kind of calm parenting geniuses, but her saying it at that point really boosted my confidence.

Oobis · 16/06/2015 13:32

A friend told me (years ago) that the Leveller's song "Beautiful Day" made her think of me. Now it makes me think of her too and never ceases to make me smile

butterfly133 · 16/06/2015 15:15

a friend of mine had been away for a month or so. On seeing me, she put her hands on my shoulders, peered at me and said "gosh, when I don't see you for a while, I forget how beautiful you are". I'm really not so it's in the eye of the beholder.

That said, she and I are no longer friends!!! But I still remember it as it was such a lovely thing to say and when it's not from a bloke or your mother, it seems more genuine somehow.

Angiefernackerpan · 16/06/2015 15:20

At a baby group I got chatting to a mum I'd never met before, she had had exactly the same problems with birth & establishing feeding that I'd had years ago with my eldest DC (both our DC had ended up very ill in hospital as a result).

She was very anxious about her baby so I said that when you see little children running around you can't tell which was breast or bottle-fed, the important thing is that they are fed.

Anyway, I bumped into her several months later and she told me I'd got her through her pnd because she held on to that idea.

I have only ever met her twice, I'm amazed that a throw-away comment made such a positive difference. That is the most lovely thing anyone has ever said to me.

RainbowFlutterby · 16/06/2015 15:30

When DSD said "Thank you for making my dad so happy."

I try

TheFairyCaravan · 16/06/2015 15:35

It wasn't said to me, but DS2 was in a lesson at the beginning of Yr 12, so he was 16, and they were all asked what made them happiest. He said "just spending time with my mum."

The teacher told me a few weeks later at parents evening, it made me well up.

gabsdot45 · 16/06/2015 15:35

DH and I were sitting on a park bench one day and an older lady came up and asked us if we were newly weds?". We said no, We'd been married about 5 years at that time. She replied, that we looked so in love she assumed we were newly weds.
I was delighted.

BackInTheRealWorld · 16/06/2015 15:39

About a year after we split my ex told me that I was an amazing mum and he knows I give our daughter a wonderful life. (Or something like that).
Ok so it turned out he was trying to get back with me.....but it was a lovely thing to be told anyway.

MrsTerryPratchett · 16/06/2015 15:40

I have two.

When I was getting divorced and pretty miserable, I walked into the Court to get the forms. I asked the security guard where I went for divorce forms and he said, "who in their right mind would divorce you?". It made me feel much better [shallow] and I got to say, "actually I'm divorcing him".

My second is sad. MIL died when DD was 6 months old. She is very very sick with cancer and wasn't really talking or able to engage. She saw DH with DD and said, "she's so beautiful". It was like she had just a tiny bit of strength left and used it to tell us. I miss her a lot.

OnIlkelyMoorBahtat · 16/06/2015 15:48

"You always make me think of Bart Simpson: you're a bit of an anarchist and you're full of joie de vivre"

RunningJumpingClimbingTrees · 16/06/2015 15:53

I'm struggling a little (a lot) with the change being a mum brings but my dad is always telling me I'm a great mum and my wee girl is lovely because of me. It's probably not true (she is a total love though).

I am lucky I have a gorgeous daughter with big brown eyes and dimples. people mention how lovely they are then look at me and say oh just like her mum (my eyes are brown but the dark circles and wrinkles around my dimples means I am not lovely at all ) is nice to hear when am tired and surviving on coffee

PinkPearlClutcher · 16/06/2015 15:56

I'm a nanny, my old charge drew me a card of the 4 seasons and said I was lovelier than all of them put together. (Age 3)

Another little boy told me I was "the most beautifulest laugher" which was really sweet!

JoandMax · 16/06/2015 16:01

Ds2 can be tricky and aloof sometimes. He's stubborn and determined and amazing but makes me second guess myself loads! He was a very poorly baby and so we had a tough start and I've lways worried about him lots.

I got his school folder today (he's 5 and in reception) and one of the bits of work was 'write a fact about your Mummy' and his answer was 'Mummy is the Queen of my world' - made me cry and realize I really don't have to worry so much and that he does know how loved he is!

IHaveBrilloHair · 16/06/2015 16:04

Just last week I'd said something on FB about being lucky to have such lovely friends, to which one of them replied that my friends are a reflection of me because I am lovely.
It meant a lot to hear that, as I really value my friendships and feel I am a bit rubbish at maintaining them at times.

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 16/06/2015 16:05

My colleague said "I'm so pleased you are pregnant because you are such a nice person" :)

CheekyNandos · 16/06/2015 16:06

Being called pretty, fit, sexy, beautiful, attractive and a 'looker' by a range of different people, each completely independently of each other.

Astrid28 · 16/06/2015 16:09

I had a really hard time last week and felt really supported by my family and friends.

One of my friends said I was an amazing person and that my positivity was inspiring and my mother in law said she was proud of me and that I didn't realise my own worth.

My heads HUGE this week

Maki79 · 16/06/2015 16:18

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missmillimentscardigan · 16/06/2015 16:20

This is such a lovely thread; it's making me well up a bit.

My DF once told me that I light up a room when I walk into it. Massively biased but it meant a lot to me.

My DS was born very prematurely and was in hospital for over 3 months before he could come home. One day, when he was about 35 weeks, I was sitting holding him and bf, which I was just getting established, having expressed for weeks on end, and a local vicar was there, speaking to the parents who were in hospital visiting their babies. We had a little chat about ds and then she went to leave, but came back and said, 'I must just tell you that you look so beautiful'. I'm pretty sure I didn't look very beautiful at that moment, but I was so happy my ds was making progress and that I was finally getting to bf him after so long, and I thought it was lovely of her to say that.

CheekyNandos · 16/06/2015 16:25

Maki79 - well don't be too bemused, I've never actually been called 'hot' by anyone :(

ElephantsAndMiasmas · 16/06/2015 16:32

These are all so lovely.

My mum can be quite critical, but on the phone one random day last year she said: "I just want you to know that we're ever so proud of you, and all the things you do." :)

Also this is a bit different but my dad is a freelance writer on top of his full-time job. When I was at university he wrote me an email to say that he'd earned just enough from his writing to pay for my university tuition that year. He never went to university and was so proud that the money earned from his (self-taught) skills were able to give me the chance to do a course he'd had loved at a great university. It meant a hell of a lot to both of us.

MamaLazarou · 16/06/2015 16:36

"I like the way you are"

From DH, shortly after we got together.

He also told me that I am the most beautiful woman he has ever seen up close

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