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By person
Who you're complimenting. Family, friends, romantic partners, coworkers, strangers.
For your girlfriend
20 compliments — quick texts to card-worthy lines.
For your boyfriend
20 compliments that actually land on most guys.
For your wife
20 compliments by year of marriage and category.
For your husband
20 compliments for the long-game partner.
For your best friend
20 compliments for the ride-or-die.
For your crush
20 compliments calibrated by how brave you're feeling.
For your mom
20 compliments by occasion and depth.
For your dad
20 compliments for the man who deflects all of them.
For your sister
20 compliments for the family original.
For your brother
20 compliments that don't read as roast material.
For your teacher
20 compliments from a student, parent, or alum.
For your coach
20 compliments for the mentor on the sideline.
For your grandma
Time-sensitive, specific, write them down.
For your grandpa
He'll deflect. Send anyway.
For your coworker
Work-appropriate. Plus the CC-the-manager move.
For a stranger
Brief, specific, drop-and-go. The non-creepy rules.
By occasion
When you need it. Birthdays, weddings, graduations, milestones, hard times.
Birthday compliments
20 birthday compliments by relationship.
Anniversary compliments
20 compliments by year of relationship.
Graduation compliments
20 compliments for every kind of graduate.
Mother's Day compliments
20 compliments beyond the Hallmark template.
Father's Day compliments
20 compliments for a dad who deflects them.
Valentine's Day compliments
20 compliments for the most-pressured day.
Wedding compliments
20 compliments by role — couple, toast, card, parents.
Engagement compliments
18 compliments for the newly engaged.
New baby compliments
Compliments for the sleep-deprived new parents.
Promotion compliments
The 'you earned this' style. Counter imposter syndrome.
Retirement compliments
Career achievements are receipts. The person is the gift.
Get well soon compliments
Compliment the person, not the illness.
By trait
What you're complimenting. Personality, intelligence, style, work ethic, kindness.
About personality
20 compliments about who they are, not what they look like.
About intelligence
20 compliments about how they think.
About style
20 compliments about taste, fit, and choices.
About cooking
20 compliments for the person who feeds you.
About work ethic
20 compliments about how they work.
About kindness
20 compliments about who they are when nobody's watching.
By format
How it should land. Short text, heartfelt card, one-liner, funny, flirty.
Short compliments
Under 10 words. Text-message length.
Heartfelt compliments
Long-form, card-worthy, multi-paragraph.
Funny compliments
Comedy + compliment. Self-aware energy.
Unique compliments
Specific frames that haven't been Pinterest-d to death.
One-line compliments
Single-sentence compliments for any context.
Genuine compliments
The opposite of bland. Specific. Honest.
Flirty compliments
Calibrated by relationship status.
By use case
Specific situations. Instagram captions, dating bios, wedding toasts, hard seasons.
Instagram captions
25 caption compliments that aren't recycled queen-emoji energy.
Dating app bios
20 self-compliments for bios that get replies.
Yearbook compliments
Write something they'll be glad to re-read at 30.
Wedding toasts
Toast lines + the 4-minute structural template.
Self-compliments
25 self-compliments. Not affirmations.
How to receive one
Eye contact. Thank you. Stop talking. The actual skill.
To make someone smile
20 compliments engineered for smile-on-impact.
For someone struggling
Grief, breakup, illness, job loss. Not about cheering them up.
Cute compliments for her
Warm, playful, romantic. Specific cute > generic cute.
Cute compliments for him
Keep the warmth. Drop the diminutives.
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