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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".Smile

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ollieplimsoles · 16/06/2015 18:26

Growing up my cousins were very sporty and they won plenty of awards. Me and my sister didn't do as many after school activities, I was shy and I would draw a lot.

One day I said to my nanna "cousin 1 and 2 always win at sports, what do I do to make you proud?"
And she said in a shocked tone "you don't need medals for your nanna to be proud of you!"

That stayed with me for years, I stopped trying to make myself perfect to everyone and let myself make mistakes, I think this helped me be successful in later life.

Quietattheback · 16/06/2015 18:27

DS2 once told me that I was a perfect mum because I "have the heart of love".

He doesn't always feel this way...Confused

Purplehonesty · 16/06/2015 18:29

My mil told me the other day how proud she was of me for working so hard and being such a good mum.
That made me cry.

And once a woman in Costa came over and said "I just wanted to say well done for feeding your baby in public". It was week 3 of bfing and I was so nervous about it. After that I was whapping them out everywhere!

LemonySmithit · 16/06/2015 20:53

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BettyCatKitten · 16/06/2015 20:56

Lemony, what a lovely manSmile

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ShakesBootyFlabWobbles · 16/06/2015 21:09

At a wedding, a stranger said to my nan 'that girl's smile lights up the whole room'.

I had someone I barely knew write in a leaving card that they would miss seeing my smile every day.

As both were some time ago, I clearly need to cheer TF up!

BlueberryWafer · 16/06/2015 21:11

The evening after giving birth to our second child my DP (who doesn't really "do" talking about feelings) said he was so proud of mean and that he loves me and our children more than anything. It might not sound like a lot to some people, but that alone made me feel so good that I deem it to be the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me.

SmallMustard · 16/06/2015 21:16

When somebody said to me that I am always really happy and have a smile for everybody

tiredofbadwifi · 16/06/2015 21:33

I have a few, and these are the ones that really make me smile.
When I was 14 I had bad(ish) acne, but I also had anxiety and sometimes it was just so hard to leave the house. I was in one of the local shops talking to a friend (nearly all my friends are much older than me) and she suddenly reached out and pushed my hair behind my ear and said "Much better. Don't you ever hide behind your hair dear, you're beautiful. I've always thought so". Made me feel so much better.
At my best friend's funeral (I was 15, she was 93) her daughter (in her 50s) reached out and hugged me tearfully, and whispered "Thankyou, so much. She really loved you". I was scared about going because I was so much younger than everyone and I thought her family might be odd about it because she really did treat me like another child.
When i was 12 and sitting in the school library a load of arsey boys were taking the piss and I got up and started walking out. A girl, older than me, who I'd never spoken to grabbed me and said "Are they bothering you?" I burst into tears and she marched towards them while I ran out to the sound of her giving them a royal bollocking.
Being told by one of the boys in my class on a VERY active walking school trip that he really respected me for going on it, even though I was in so much pain from an undiagnosed (to this day) leg problem I was using a walking stick. I was 11, and very self conscious about it.
Ling post, but God those things really lifted me.

oabiti · 16/06/2015 21:34

Said to me from my DM & DD a few times over the years: oabiti, you light up our lives Smile

oabiti · 16/06/2015 21:35

Sorry, meant DM & DF x

BettyCatKitten · 16/06/2015 21:39

When I was a home carer one of the ladies I used to visit said to me "Betty you're such a kind, thoughful person"

myneighbourtotoro2 · 16/06/2015 21:44

When my dd was being investigated for a horrible condition my df told me I had more iron in me than he ever realised. My parents have said more than enough nice things to me over the years.

Thankfully dd was fine

HoVis2001 · 16/06/2015 21:45

At uni, a few years back. I was walking through town late at night and a car load of guys drew past and catcalled quite unpleasantly. As they drove off I muttered something upset and a cyclist pulled up next to me. He asked if I was OK and then said he just wanted to say that he thought I looked really lovely. I thought it was so sweet and courteous and a much, much more respectful way of expressing your appreciation of someone's looks than yelling obscenities at them out of a car window!

He seemed a lovely young lad and he had clearly had to screw up his courage to speak to me. My brand new at the time DH who was walking to meet me then turned up and the poor boy cycled off pretty fast! I really hope it didn't put him off giving a sweet and courteous compliment to some other girl in the future. :)

Not sure if that's the absolute nicest thing anyone's ever said to me but it made me feel so much better after being thrown off kilter and feeling threatened.

Kewcumber · 16/06/2015 21:46

Ds when he was four said "I love you mum, even on Saturdays and at the weekend"

My then boyfriend picked me up at Heathrow after a girls weekend away (I was the fattest least hip woman there) and said "I looked at you coming towards me with all your friends and I thought how glad I was it was you I was going home with"

Mind you it may be the only lovely thing he ever said to me.

Lariflete · 16/06/2015 21:48

I have always said that I hope our children have DH's beautiful eyes (they do Grin ). After a particularly tough year at Uni, DH (then-DP) wrote me a card saying 'You always say you want our kids to have my eyes. I hope they will have your strength of character.' Still makes me tear up.

4 different people over the course of about 3 years, approached DH and I and said that it was obvious that we were in love and that we were going to be together forever, which I loved.

Before Grandad died, the only thing he would eat was cake and he always used to say "Lariflete, you are this family's champion cakemaker!"

I have severe depression and tend to only see the negative, so I am very proud of these examples which always stay with me.

Lariflete · 16/06/2015 21:49

*Cake, made by me, that should read.

DaisyChain87 · 16/06/2015 21:50

DP told me he knew he wanted to marry me on the first night we met the other day.

sallysparrow157 · 16/06/2015 21:52

When I was not quite 2 years out of uni I worked in a fantastic paeds admission unit with some great nurses who... Called a spade a spade, shall we say! If any of the junior doctors was particularly daft or lazy or rude there would be mutterings that 'there's plenty of jobs in tesco you know' or even offers to go and get you a tesco application form!
I don't even remember what I had done but I clearly impressed one of the nurses one day as she stopped what she was doing, looked at me and said 'you know what, you shouldn't go to work in tescos.'
That someone so straight talking actually told me I was good at my job in that way made me believe it far more than if someone had said it in the conventional way! I started my next job believing I was pretty good at what I do and having been a shit student I have achieved things I never ever thought I could

(No offence to people who work in tescos by the way, there was a massive tesco next to the hospital, the suggestion of there as alternative employment wasn't a 'you're so crap you could only work in tesco' thing, it was a 'you're pissing me off, go get a job somewhere else, tesco is closest so it would only take me 5 minutes to pick you up an application form' thing!)

Iwonderif · 16/06/2015 21:56

My MIL has often said to me how happy I've made her son & what a wonderful mommy I am. I need to hear things like that as often feel far from it!

When my 4 yr old DS says "mommy your wobbly tummy and bottom are lovely" that makes my day!

MrsTrelis · 16/06/2015 22:02

When DSD told me she wished me & DP would get married because then we'd all have the same name and I would 'properly be her stepmummy, but not an evil one like in cinderella'. That made my heart melt and made me realise I must be doing something right. That was a few years ago now, and it still gives me a nice fuzzy feeling when I think about it Smile

TTWK · 16/06/2015 22:02

And DP wrote me a poem on a rizla packet that said my eyes were brighter than the twin headlamps of some sort of Ducatti

Probably a 916.

CherriesAndSlippers · 16/06/2015 22:08

I left exp last year. It was hard. We had been together for ten years and have two beautiful dds. When I told my mum and asked if I could stay with her for a while to get my feet she hugged me and reminded me that I was the one who changed her life and that she'd do anything for me
At Christmas a good friend from work gave me a medal engraved with the year and my name and "for bravery".

Postchildrenpregranny · 16/06/2015 22:12

On our wedding day , my DH (not one for compliments) told me he was the sort of guy who usually danced with the wallflowers (I didn't choose him for his looks!, but 'today he'd got the belle of the ball'. My DDs think this is puke -making. I think it's lovely. He also tells them (not me) he thinks I'm a brilliant mother . They tell me this too . Brilliant I am not, but I do my best and this means so much to me .

When I retired,I was touched how many of my staff thanked me for my support and told me how much they'd enjoyed working for me . I found management quite testing and often wondered if I'd got it right .

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