What's the loveliest thing that anyone has ever said to you and it really registered?

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Feelgood please....no mervin' or talking about bum and banjos.

My marriage broke down when I was pg with my DS. He's 9 months old and my ex husband hasn't seen him since he was 8 week. I've done it all by myself. Re-located built a life and a home for us and we are happy.
In the nail shop (my friends own it) over Christmas treating myself. They play with the baby, we were all chatting and there was another )posh) lady in there and we were having a chat all together about me training to be something new and as I was leaving she asked to get a note out of her purse. Her nails were wet so unthought nothing of it and did it. She said
"Now go but something for your son, something he doesn't need, you are lovely and a great mum"
I burst into tears. The fact she knew nothing about what I had just been through and how hellish the past year was in parts and just saw how happy my son is and that we are good people just caught me off gaurd. Other people see me and him as "a family" and not a broken one.

After having DS MIL said to me "you are so relaxed with him... I can feel the beta waves coming off you." I was probably just knackered hence blobbing in a chair holding him all day but it was nice.

My (old, fusty and hard-to-please) tutor at university one day said "You write like a dream!" I always wanted to be a writer but didn't think it was actually possible - that gave me the confidence and now I am.

Once I had some somewhat drastic red highlights put in and was a bit embarrassed by how bright they were. DS exclaimed "Mummy! Your hair is fantastic pink!" After that I just thought, what the hell :)

And DD aged 2 always gives me little compliments that melt my heart. "Mummy, I like you. You are nice." "Mummy I like your boobies. I want grown up lady boobies like you." :o

Recently? I've just had a horrible time at work with a complaint against me, so this week it was lovely to get some great positive feedback from a new client who thinks I'm the bee's knees!

An autistic lad in my DD class said that i smell of rainbows.... made me have a damp eye...

A bit creepy... but one of my husband's colleagues and I were chatting about 6 years ago in a bar on the beach in Brighton (a very casual work do!)... we'd been talking about worky type stuff for a good 20 mins, and I took off my sun-glasses and he said, in a very genuine way "you have got the most amazing eyes".

Now, probably he was being a creep- but it blew me away and made me

I know she was just meaning the colour and the shape she'd made but it was so flippin' lovely... The other day, on my lap, facing me, 23mo DD held out my long, blonde hair like a fan around my face and said "Mummy, you are the sunshine."

And I guess when DD was about 6 months (OK, I WAS fishing, I have to admit), I said to DP do you think I'm a good mum? He came back with "you're a great mum. I knew you were going to be good but I had no idea you were going to be this brilliant."

On a residential trip one of my students was really homesick and weepy in the middle of the night so I reassured her and sent her back off to sleep.

I saw her in school a while later and she said I was a really kind teacher. I wibbled and had to try not to tear up.

scarybiscuit- I am loving that... smelling of rainbows, think i've now got damp eyes!

We were in a restaurant in Portugal and at the next table were a very elderly Portuguese couple. They were still obviously in love, alternately talking and laughing together and sitting in companionable silence. DH looked at them for a long time, then turned to me and said "That's what I want" .

I couldn't speak.

Mind you perhaps he was taking about their Steak Portugese.

Bit odd this but I was a miserable bullied severely depressed teenager, I got hideously drunk one night and self harmed to badly an ambulance was called, I was fine but chucked in a police cell to sober up (a questionable decision I feel but ho hum) I could hear the police officer talking to the counsellor that had just arrived and he said 'she very polite and so pretty, you won't believe it when you see her' its the first time anyone without ulterior motive called me pretty and it genuinely helped me. Isn't life strange

I run courses for NEET teenagers in a deprived area. I had one girl who at the start of the course never said a word. She told me that she had been bullied at school and that every time she spoke she got jeered at - for being a swot if she answered correctly and for being stupid if she got it wrong. The course was 8 weeks and by the end of it she did a presentation to the rest of the class. In the feedback session she told me that I had made a total difference to her confidence and her life- she went and signed up on the spot for a full time floristry course. I still see her every so often and she never hesitates to tell me what a difference i made. It makes it all worth it (and FWIW they were a lovely group who all supported each other that made the difference really)

More damp eyes here too.

"Hasn't he got lovely cheeks. And so much hair!".

I was 20 mins old. It's been down hill since then.

Midwife after my horrendous, loooong and traumatic birth..."you were amazing, so calm and you never stopped saying please and thank you! Your baby is going to have lovely manners!"

DS1 (21 last Dec) & who has been through a lot (understatement) sent me a text last Oct. It said:

Random, but thank you for raising me with self-esteem and respect - randomly thinking about it and so many gay people would have caved under it, but I never did! Thankyou xxxx

I cried and cried and cried and cried.

On less profound note (& day before my then 6 weekly Toni & Guy top-up), same DS1 aged 5 was standing on my bed cuddling me as I stood on the floor so he was a WEENY bit higher than me. And he said: "Mummy, you have such BEAUTIFUL golden hair.... apart from that dark stripe down the middle"

Out of the mouthes of babes huh?

Perchance 'You are the sunshine' - OMG that's just gorgy beyond words And GreenFolder - what a frickin testimonial to you is that? Would BATHE in that if I were you x

When I told my dad I'd fallen in love with woman (i was sobbing in a coffee shop and couldn't get my words out) he said, with such feeling, 'oh, my darling. Is that all you've got to tell me? I'm so very happy for you, you're the best daughter anyone could ask for.'

Can't think about it without crying.

I've always though of my eyes as a rather dull grey. I was on a liveaboard dive trip in the red sea One gorgeous day with amazing sea, as the group were kitting up to go diving. One of the other women turned to me and said 'Wow, your eyes are the same colour as the water. They're amazing'.

Last night DH whispered those 3 little words that I longed to hear..........."Here's the remote"

A colleague once told me I was "pure gold" - mind you, this was the day I left so it may have just been relief on his part..
Another colleague said I looked like a "goddess" when walking in bright sunshine.
Damn, why didn't I marry one of them?!

Dh met an ex pupil of mine from my 1st year of teaching. She is now head of faculty in the subject I taught her, but what made me most proud is that when she married she didn't change her name because I hadn't! I couldn't believe someone had made such a personal decision because of me.

Most of the kids where we work don't know dh and I are married and when dh mentioned it to a lovely 6th former last week she said 'But she's really pretty!'-cheered me up!

"If I was single I'd take you on" This said to me by a builder today who is doing double glazing after I said I am not dating anymore!
Its his birthday on Friday and he jested on about how a cake would be nice from me and the kids. Cant work out whether he was joking or not. But that made my day though.

This thread makes me determined to tell more people the nice things about them..my best comments are
FromDH : We were having meal with friends and I was talking when he said "sorry to interrupt darling but I just have to tell you how healthy and glowing you look" Everybody was gobsmacked.
From niece aged 7 whose parents had just split up: Auntie P , your my mummy now...I was 18 at the time..
from a male colleague : I just had to tell you that I heard all the team discussing what fantastic skin you have
and finally I always choke whenevr my 2grown up step daughters refer to me and their Dad as "their parents". ..their Mum is still alive and they get on well so it's as if they just see me as an extension which is lovely.

An ex who also called me his "butterfly" everyday for the whole time we dated. Will never forget that