• Comrade_Spood@quokk.au
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    14 hours ago

    Compliments make me uncomfortable because I only really recieved them when I was quite young, so I have a habit of associating compliments with being a child. So compliments make me feel infantilized.

    I also struggle with self-worth, so I also often times feel like I am undeserving of compliments. This causes me to not trust compliments as being genuine. I have a bad habit of assuming compliments are backhanded or are manipulative, or just overall just not genuine.

    • deus@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      What the hell, this is exactly how I feel. I don’t have a partner though so I don’t know how I’d behave in this case. I hope that, if I ever find someone, I can at least trust them enough to not question the sincerity of their compliments.