FILE: ARCH-LTR-204 / STATUS: ACTIVE
What They Wished You Knew: Compliment Deflection
You are reading questions people typed about someone who runs Compliment Deflection. Read them, then the pattern file.
I often encourage and compliment my boyfriend. However, whenever I compliment him he just smiles and kind of shrugs it off, and sometimes deny it. Should I stop complimenting him?
How to compliment someone when they think they don’t deserve compliments and therefore get uncomfortable if I compliment them
How to help poeple who don't take or accept compliments, it makes them uncomfortable, why do they feel like that, and most important, how can I compliment them without making them uncomfortable?
Why do some people have a hard time accepting compliments?
What are some reasons why people struggle with accepting compliments?
Each line below is a public question a real person typed, quoted word for word. The Archivist chose and ordered them and wrote nothing inside them.
THE PATTERN FILE
Compliment Deflection: Why can't I take a compliment?
When Compliment Deflection runs for years
These letters are part of the Letters in The Stacks, beside Unsent.
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