What if your spouse rejects your compliments?

First, thanks for asking this question. Now, since it is human nature to enjoy compliments, there are obviously deeper issues between you when you can't receive each others compliments. Compliments can't come right after a disagreement because your spouse has not had time to deal with his/her feelings from your recent spat. So he/she is most likely to reject it assuming that you are "trying to be funny". The problem with giving the right answer to this question is that I don't know your situation. You could have built up resentment for lacking the ability to deal with issues as they arise, instead of allowing them to simmer into a boil. In that case, you both need to be willing to find the source of your discord and cut it from the root. When you are married you have to be more willing to understand each other and fight together for your relationship. The first step in this process is time together to recall the things that brought you together. The truth is that a lot of marriages fail because the things that drew you together began to fade over time. You don't have any romance or spontaneity anymore, you don't randomly send flowers anymore, you don't stay up watching movies together, you get the idea. The main question is, do you love each other? If so, then do what's necessary to be back IN love.