AIBU to ask which was the nicest compliment you ever got?

[Flyingfish2019]

Unfortunately I cannot tell which was the nicest compliment I ever got because I could not stay anonymous but I would like to hear yours.

I’m curious why you couldn’t stay anonymous?

Mine was walking next to my first serious BF - I remember feeling insanely happy and in looove at the time; I may even have been skipping 😳 and a lorry driver yelled out the window ‘you should marry that girl, she’s a keeper’. He didn’t.

Someone I used to work with last year called me "a force of nature". Given that my job is all about getting shit done, I was delighted with his comment. However, I appreciate that may also make me some people's worst nightmare .

That’s so sweet.
I couldn’t stay anonymous because that compliment was so special and unique. A pity I cannot share it here.

"You are one of the prettiest people I've ever met". Said to me when I was 25 by another woman. No one else has ever said anything like that to me again. I've never forgotten it.

"Mummy l loves you is you"

On my wedding day... a friend said to me "twice in my life you've taken my breath away, once in the pub and right at this moment". If i hadnt just got married I'd have kissed him with a line like that 😂

OP are you famous????

When I was pregnant a colleague said how lucky my baby was to have me as a mum.

It may have been complete bollocks but I thought it was just such a lovely thing to say to someone.

@GogogadgetGin Famous? Not to my knowledge... but who knows if the person who complimented me is on mumsnet. So, no, not famous, just a lil paranoid.

"I cannot possibly stay with someone braver than me"

Still chuffed almost 20 years later.

Don't think I've ever been complimented, unless you count: "you'd be really pretty, if you weren't so fat!" I was a UK size 12/14 at the time weighing between 81/2 - 9 stone and 5'4" tall.

Mine was when my DIL was expecting her first baby, and a male work colleague told me he was sad that if he and his wife ever managed to have a baby, he/she would never have a nana like me. When they had their two children, I became Nana to them.

I would trust you with my life

The CEO described me as 'mad as a box of frogs'. A daft one, but I loved it.

My ex-H who can be a bit of a dick at times told me I was an amazing Mum.

I was told recently by another woman that I was an amazing dancer after a full-on night of dancing. I don’t go out and dance more than a couple of times a year now, and being a bit over 40 have wondered if I’ve still got it, but I loved that night, and felt on top of the world when she came up to me and said that out of the blue.

When my step dad who I've had a seriously rocky relationship with growing up, now he is like my dad - I had just got to about 33 weeks pregnant after a couple hard years and he had popped by my work in the day, he later text and said he was feeling emotional because I've grown into a radiant, confident Mum to be and he's so proud. Yeah, good job he text it because I bawled my eyes out. Meant a lot to have that relationship with a father figure after 22 years of not having one.

My DM says I’m a great mum!

"You could be one of the highest earners in your area just by doing what you do now for others."
Said by the toughest auditor in the field in the middle of an argument Still means the world to me because I accidentally fell into my line of work through marriage and even more accidentally gathered up extra clients.

on a slightly tipsy girls night out, my friends all voted me as ‘the one we would all want to date if we were lesbians’ because i would be a keeper. i was so chuffed, i couldn’t wait to tell dh!

An ex colleague when I was in my early 20's. He told me he and his wife couldn't have kids but if they had he would have wished for a daughter like me. He had me in tears!

Love being told I'm a good mum. My favourite, no frills compliment

I've had so so many. Not to sound conceited but I've had loads from exes along the lines of 'I've never seen a woman more beautiful than you' and 'you're the most amazing woman I've known. I've never met anyone like you'. All my relationships have ended badly and I'm currently unhappily single.

What means more to me is being told I'm the best teacher ever and that my lessons are addictive. I'm a history teacher and one adult student messaged to say that she could feel history running through her veins and I'd made it come alive for her.

My dad, who is the least affectionate person ever, told me I was doing a fabulous job with dd and she was a wonderful child because of all my hard work. He nodded, o nodded and we have never spoken of it again, but it was just the best compliment ever. Only waited 45 years for him to say something nice...!

My son (young adult) told me recently that I was the most likeable person he knew.

My BIL told dh and me that when he and his wife to be were doing a pre-marriage course they were asked to describe a marriage they would like theirs to be like and they described ours.