That's a compliment?

Take it as a compliment Anya, some men wouldn't notice if you came down starkers

Mine might say 'Aren't you cold?' ceecee.

Yes, that's a compliment. I think they sound like that. I vaguely remember them. I get them still, they just sound more like 'You look tired'.

Anya that is definitely a compliment- it shows that he knows of your existence.

Exactly.

Almost any comment's a bonus

Better than 'red and shiny' or 'blotchy and shiny' - or 'what's happened to your face?'

I quite agree rosequartz

I would be happy mine even acknowledged I was still living in the same house let alone make a complimentary remark.

He did say the word 'lovely' Anya.

Yes, the sad thing is he did mean it as a compliment. He followed it up with 'you're looking better lately'

I put in on the 'Ask a Granddad* in case any of our male posters could explain how the male mind -- works-- operates.

Oh dear. That's you damned with faint praise! He does sound as though he's trying though.

Ys, he's very trying!

Mine would definitely say, 'What have you done to your face?'

That's if he noticed anything

When I told him, a few years ago, that I'd been inappropriately touched in a crowded tube train my DH merely said " There are some very weird people about." I'm quite sure that wasn't a compliment.

Thanks given I assume Grannynise!

Anya, every man sees his wife as a picture of perfection, so inevitably he is occasionally lost for words to express himself adequately when he beholds the vision before him.

Pity us poor chaps!

If you say so grumpa

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good answer grumpa.

Anya May I have the temerity to ask if you have been looking better lately, how did you look before? Did you notice any difference?!

Charley that's what I've been wondering myself! The only difference is a slight change of hair style.

Grumppa I think I'd prefer if he would stay lost for words

Not a full face-lift then
Amazing what happens in the shower
(Remember Bobby in Dallas?)

And of course Psycho!

A sort of still unravish'd groom of quietness, Anya?