Struggling With Compliments
Most people like compliments but they would rather overhear someone saying something nice about them than to them. It can be easier to handle someone making a nasty remark to you than when they compliment you. Perhaps it’s because we’re more accustomed to falling short in someone’s eyes that we know what to say when someone insults us than knowing what to say when we’re complimented. If a man tells a woman she’s beautiful and she hasn’t heard anyone else …