I don’t mind at all Bryan if you repost it.
Sometimes our comments are habits, and we don’t realize what we are saying, or how it makes the other person feel. Sometimes being truthful even with genuine compliments makes us uncomfortable, but hopefully we’ll all get better at it.

Thank you for this post.  I must confess that I’m a “decomplimenter”.  I know that words are VERY powerful in building up or tearing down someone.  It makes me a bit sad that I fell into this word trap of complimenting someone but then negating it.  On the flip side, I know now what I’m saying wrong and will start changing how I say a compliment, what I say, and genuinely mean it.

I would like to post your blog on my Facebook page.  Would you mind my doing that?

Thanks again for writing this.  I will definitely change from here on out. 🙂

Bryan