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

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Flyingfish2019 · 23/01/2019 21:36

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.

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LizzieMacQueen · 23/01/2019 22:31

An aunt said I had grown into a beautiful woman. Meant she thought I was an awful looking bugger when younger but I'll take that as a compliment.

sweetheartyparty · 23/01/2019 22:33

It was the day after giving birth to my daughter and felt like I'd been run over by a bus. The HCA asked me if I was really 40 (after looking at my DOB on my file), which I replied yes and she said I looked amazing for my age. Sadly age has caught up to me quite spectacularly

SusieQ5604 · 23/01/2019 22:34

The hospice nurse told me how proud my mother was of me a few days before she died

MaybeMaybeNotJ · 23/01/2019 22:35

The one I remember is “you’ll be pretty when you’re okder” when I was 16.

I do think I’m more attractive now but maybe just because I’m more secure in my self.

AmbitiousHalibut · 23/01/2019 22:36

I remember the wrong un I had an enormous crush on in my teenage years saying "You've got a face like an angel". It was impossible to shake that crush off for a good 20 years even without being in touch with him!

More practically, I once asked my DH to be what he thought was impressive about me (classic fishing for a compliment!) and said "You have an amazingly high pain threshold" 😬 Reader, I married him.

MumUnderTheMoon · 23/01/2019 22:37

Last week dd (age 11) end of primary school assessment happened. She's in a special school and the educational psychologist assessing her is the same one who did her assessment to get into the school when she was four. She told me "she is amazing, she's come so far, you have done a really good job" I cried.

SluggishSnail · 23/01/2019 22:39

My DD then aged about 9 said "you're not quite as embarrassing as some of the other mums". High praise!

stinkypoo · 23/01/2019 22:39

In the past few years I've been told many times by various people how 'dignified ' I've been in the face of quite a lot of adversity.
And that I'm one of the strongest women they've ever met - you don't have a great deal of choice but it's nice for people to recognise it, especially when you don't feel it yourself.

Beechview · 23/01/2019 22:40

Dh once woke up and turned to me said ‘you’re amazing. I can’t believe you’re a real person’ then promptly went back to sleep. He can’t remember ever saying it but I’ve no doubt he meant every word Hmm

NCjustforthisthread · 23/01/2019 22:40

My daughter says to me almost nightly, as I tuck her in ‘ Mummy I want to look like you when I am a big girl’. Makes me well up everytime because I have never felt that I look like anything special. She makes me feel like I’m special. She won’t cut her hair becasue she is afraid is she does - she won’t be like me anymore (I have long hair).

Mitsuki · 23/01/2019 22:41

I was serving an elderly man at work and he told me I looked like his late wife when he first met her in the 50's and that i was very beautiful.

It was so touching it really stuck with me. Flowers

Hillarious · 23/01/2019 22:41

A Russian lady, newly arrived in our city, and who I met at our children's nursery school told me about ten years later how welcome I'd made her feel when I'd taken time to talk to her, despite her faltering English, and how she'd never forgotten that.

arethereanyleftatall · 23/01/2019 22:42

Best mum ever

Aswad · 23/01/2019 22:43

'I'd make you a model if I had the money' haha and a friend once cried when I announced I was resigning from a job

DramaAlpaca · 23/01/2019 22:45

My 23 year old DS told me recently that he is so proud that I'm his mum. It made me cry.

Diplobrat · 23/01/2019 22:48

I was once on a bus where a man had a seizure, and I stopped the driver and called an ambulance (talking to paramedics on the phone and telling the other passengers to put him in the recovery position). After the paramedics arrived another guy on the bus stopped me and said I'd been amazing. Smile No medical skills but I like to think I'm calm in a crisis! (Sadly don't know how the guy did afterwards)

Maginthemirror · 23/01/2019 22:49

I had been quite poorly and was in hospital - the night I got back my husband just said how much he had missed me and the bed was so empty when I wasn’t there - he just felt something was missing and he didn’t like it . I was really touched as we had been married for ever and sort of took each other for granted so it was lovely to hear- even more poignant as he died unexpectedly a month later.

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 23/01/2019 22:49

A sentimental one - on holiday before Xmas with my folks, DH got all upset and told my mum and dad that I was the best thing that had ever happened to him and that nobody could have been a better support through his illness. It made me cry.

Nicest random compliment though was when i was walking through Camden on my own, wearing a new 50s style dress, huge fluffy petticoat, and had my hair in a vintage style. An old man stopped me in the street to tell me that I looked a vision, and had brightened up his day. I am not used to such a reaction from people other than DH and my family, so it has stuck with me.

rosamacrose · 23/01/2019 22:52

I was once described as ' magnificent '
30 years ago.

Greysgirl · 23/01/2019 22:52

After I had DS DH said to me “you’re my hero”. He’s not one for compliments normally, he’s a straight talking, emotionally stunted northerner. It’s the nicest thing he’s ever said to me.

Mummymummums · 23/01/2019 22:54

A lady I worked with took me aside one day and told me that I was very special and that I would be able to do anything I chose to do. It gave me confidence and pushed me and I've succeeded where I wouldn't have thought I could.

BabySharkDoDoDoDoDoDoDo · 23/01/2019 22:56

I'm really insecure about my appearance - especially my weight and think I'm really fat - which is fine, but I have a small head, so irrationally feel I should be slim to suit it!! Anyway, I overheard two guys discussing me and some other young women (I was young at the time! Not so young now!!!) They didn't know I was there. One of them said to his friend that he didn't fancy me because I was all bone and too skinny for him. It definitely wasn't meant as a compliment! But to my insecure self that thought I was fat, it was the best ever compliment and I have never ever fogotton it! :)

MrsMcW · 23/01/2019 22:56

A stranger walked up to me in a shop and said 'you're perfect, don't change anything about yourself' and then walked away again. Have no idea what prompted it, but I've never forgotten. Think he was probably on a one good deed a day kick or similar, but it really meant something to me at a time when I was newly single and depressed.

HildaZelda · 23/01/2019 22:56

Was working with a guy a few years ago and when he found out my surname (not that common where I live) he asked me if I knew "John HildaZelda"?
I told him that he was my brother and he looked at me in astonishment and said "HE'S your brother? Oh my God, you're NOTHING like him!", and then got a bit flustered and started trying to apologise because he wasn't sure if he'd said the right thing or not.
I started laughing and told him that it was the best compliment I'd ever got.
My brother and myself don't speak anymore. He has a (completely accurate) reputation as an arrogant, controlling bully and is universally disliked by his colleagues.

To be told I was nothing like him was fantastic to hear.

BelfortGabbz · 23/01/2019 22:57

To be only person to be invited to the work Christmas party after they'd left. My old boss had said " We can't have the party without the pop"
I thought that was lovely.