How to Take a Compliment

Kate Wavering
6 min readDec 4, 2021

like a lady.

Photo by Clarke Sanders on Unsplash

A man once said: Some women just don’t know how to take a compliment.

He was gross and I told him that, but I do think he was right. I know because I’m a woman and I’ve heard us blame ourselves for the discomfort we feel around compliments all my life.

That being said, more often than not I think the problem does not lie with us, but with the one giving…

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Kate Wavering

I like to be outside. I am a field potato. she/her/mama. I write what I want. Not branded.