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.

@Almostfifty That’s so nice to hear.

Thanks Fish, I was a bit overwhelmed at the time, never realised she thought about me at all. It was the perfect thing to make me gird my loins and be strong.

The best one I've ever had was from DP:

"I think of you like a rare diamond, you know they are out there but only once in a lifetime do you get to see one. You are like a crown full of rare diamonds"

I think all of his compliments have been by text (we don't live together) as he finds it difficult to express emotion face to face, so I treasure them greatly (and also am able to look back over them from time to time )

After my mum died recently and I organised everything funeral and big separate memorial service and reception my do have me a card which just said I’d ‘done an amazing job for my ma and that she would been so proud’ of me.
Not earth shattering but honestly meant a lot. Love my dp.

A bit of a weird one, but when I was an (older) teenager I hung out a fair bit with a guy - platonically for the majority; I think we may have kissed once or something - but I remember him saying to me once when we were laughing and having really good chat, "You know I like you better than all the other girls". He was probably just trying to bed me too, but it made me feel simultaneously embarrassed and touched.

When doing a teacher training course, I was the youngest student by a good 10 years and the only one with no teaching experience. After being observed by the other students, one said, 'up to now, I wanted to teach like X does, but today I want to be able to teach like you.' that's stuck with me and helped me through many a difficult lesson.

My eldest son's teacher told me that he was the 'sweetest, politest - and most importantly - kind' boy she's ever taught.

He is 7 with ASD. It has been a giant journey to get him to where he is currently is.

I was at a bar in my hometown - hadn't visited for a good few years - when a guy strolled up to me and asked if I knew someone called (my full name)

I said maybe and asked him why?

And he said you look so much like her only way prettier.

He looked so shocked when he realised it WAS me.

He seemed like a good guy tbh - we had a quick catch up when I told him I run my own business and he said that bit wasn't surprising at all because I've always been gobby but brilliant.

Gobby but brilliant! Still one of my fave things to ever be labelled as!

I wish I could go back in time and tell the awkward teenager in knee braces, special shoes and with frizzy hair that all the painful bits of adolescence won't matter one day. You CAN be kind, funny and ambitious without emasculating - the good ones are impressed and it's gorgeous to watch when it happens to you or others!

So thank you lovely mystery man you didn't know but I need to hear it as I was going through a tough patch.

:)

Ps I've not found the one... maybe I should go back to the bar. Although it's two years later now so someone might I look like the mother of (my full name)

Sorry to hijack thread but hopefully this gives goes to show how these magic moments can affect us longer term.

I was recently in a crash, and as a direct result of my injuries i have had my arm rebuilt from steel pins and plates, and due to damage to the brain epilepsy too!

It's little comments on my character like "gobby but brilliant" that are keeping me going tbh defined by my character not my pain.

I wish we all realised how we can inject a bit of magic into each other's lives for decades to come.

We've probably all sprinkled magic on someone's life and not even realised - such a lovely thought :)

A couple of weeks after my relationship broke down...it was very common knowledge around the town that he cheated on me and left me to move in with OW. I had three of my kids (one of whom had just been diagnosed with autism) in the local supermarket, two were only babies at the time. As we were leaving the woman serving us said to me "You'll be fine, they're beautiful children and you're a great mammy" That meant more to me just then than she will ever know.

Once described by a uni friend that I looked like Demi Moore. Took my breath away.

A friend of mine was feeling a little worse for wear after our NYE party this year and as walked our dogs on NYD feeling (and looking, and probably smelling) like shite she told me that she loves the way I parent my DC, that the way I hear them and let them feel their feelings and help be the best they can be without any pretensions was perfect.

Coming from someone I adore, it was a wonderful thing to hear.

My DH told me I'm the most caring, genuine person he knows.
He's one luck guy ....only joking .... I was overwhelmed cos he's not usually a soppy type

This is such a lovely thread 😊

A famous fashion editor once told me they loved my dress. Was chuffed.

Margot Grace Coddington??...

An elderly man followed me off the street into an estate agents to tell me i was beautiful (I'm really not!). Which i thought was very lovely. On telling the story to my husband he asked me if he had a white stick 🙄

DP calls me his home which I love, he also tells me he’s safe with me, which is sweet and sad at the same time because he was abused as a child.

A teenager who used to work weekends where I work told me ‘Jarets, you smile all the time when really you should probably be crying’

It comes off slightly backhanded but she really was the sweetest and I knew what she meant. I was going through a divorce after leaving my abusive ex husband a few years before and he was taking me through court over child matters.

Both stick with me