The Best Compliment Letter Ever Written

by Cory H. on November 19, 2008

Yesterday I wrote a post about compliment time as part of a four part series about relationship reviews.  I asked readers what the best compliment they had ever received from their spouse was.  Natasha from Becoming Something left this portion of a letter her husband wrote to her:

Natasha, you make poetry mean something. You put life into music and life into what would otherwise be the mere duty of existence. You make love worth protecting and a family out of a group of children and a motley husband. Natasha, you breathe spirit into soul and feeling into touch. The water from your well shall always satisfy. You are the wonder that all metaphors fail, the gift that can be opened everyday. …There are days when I am forced to pause, when I am struck by the fact that you are my wife. You are a dream I get to touch, a future unfolding before me, a fantastic mysterious and challenging encounter of womanhood as it should be. I love your cheer, your courage and determination. I love your smile and the life that makes that smile an insight into our eternal origins. May the next nine years be better, as growth-filled and as warming.

Love, Jude.

What do you think everybody?  Is this a good way to compliment your spouse?  I, for one, stand amazed.

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I can't believe I didn't see this.

WELL.

Jude DOES back it up. He makes me breakfast every Sunday and brings it to me in bed. He does most of the dishes. He's an ideal father to my children. He defends me better than anyone. He loves me most and best when I'm at my worst. At the time he wrote that, I have to say that things were not ideal. But the circumstances were not his fault. Circumstances have changed and Jude has become the most amazing man I will ever know, of this I am sure. So much so that my friend Katie, on Twitter has said that Jude is God-like. His compassion and forgiveness are not human. He makes me laugh. He rubs my feet. He seeks to make me happy. He reads books to help himself be a better man and husband. I don't know how much more to say. Today he told me he would squeeze me sunshine from the clouds.

Natashas last blog post..31 Reasons to smile and 29 reasons to be annoyed.

VictorianTasha 5 pts

Unfortunately, that change was brief, a fleeting panic on his part after some near-infidelity on my part. These things I wrote were only present during this brief time in eleven years. It goes to show that you never can know what goes on in other people's marriages, and how deceiving outward appearances can be. And when people feel like they have no choice but to be happy with what they have, they will lie to themselves. The people who are most mouthy are often those who are most trying to convince themselves.

Wow. Truly inspiring. April is right about there needing to be the substance to back it up. I aspire to express my love to my wife in such a way, both verbally and non-verbally.

toms last blog post..Crisis!

That was breathtaking! What a terrific question.

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Wonderful use of words but a compliment is only as good as the truthiness its messenger beholds. Without substance its just words right, its gotta ring true.
The rogue poet who married the royal princess of norway praised their love in a similar way but he couldnt pull it off..it just got thick, creamy and yucky. As opposed to the marriage between her brother, the crownprince and a once-a-raver-gone-good-singlemom were he swept a nation away with his heartfelt expressions of love..

Heh forgot were I was going with this^^

Holy Crap.

Aprils last blog post..My First Wedding - With Pictures! (Plus a Giveaway!)

WAY TO GO, JUDE!!!

No doubt your wife will treasure your words for the rest of her life. What a great, uplifting message you gave her.

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