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Good for you is a compliment I never take well. To me, a “good for you” expresses either a lack of care for someone’s good news or a cop out of a compliment where no compliment at all would be better.<\/p>\n

Similarly, people who say “that’s funny” when something is funny aren’t really amused, because if they were they’d actually laugh.<\/p>\n

The next time you give a compliment to someone, choose a genuine smile or a pat on the back over a “good for you”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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