January 6, 2009
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What is the best compliment you have ever gotten?
After reading Mlle. Robillard’s post answering this question I just had to answer it too.
I have always struggled with my weight. There are those out there who are probably shaking their heads and saying they agree and know what it is to struggle with this very problem. When I was younger I wasn’t exactly what you would call fat but I wasn’t ever skinny either. I can remember growing up that my brothers would try to compliment me by saying that “if you lost a little weight you would look great”. Rather than prompting me to lose weight it would only frustrate me and make me loathe myself all the more.
When my husband and I were just married and home from our honeymoon one of my brothers made one of their usual comments about my weight and my husband, who is by no means a man to compliment easily, said the most wonderful, romantic thing anyone had ever said to me. He told my brother that I was perfect and that if Ruebens were alive right now he would paint a picture of me. He made me feel like a queen and like the most beautiful woman alive. He also managed to shut my brother up for good.
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Sometime today, I’d like you to walk up to your husband and give him a kiss on the cheek from me. That was the perfect thing to say. God bless him for it. In fact, God HAS blessed him for it, by giving him a beautiful devoted wife, and wonderful children.
@MlleRobillard - Thank you my dear for the lovely compliment. I would be happy to kiss that wonderful man on the cheek for you and then on the lips for me. I have been happily devoted to him for over 25 years for more reasons than the fact that he doesn’t think that I am fat.
Wow, what a beautiful compliment! It almost brings tears of happiness for you to have been blessed with such a husband!
Hooray for him!!! Sometimes family seems to get in rut about something and it takes a shocker to get them to let go of the old familiar routines.