Your marriage OIN, your dice to roll.

all we can do is make suggestions based on what we have experienced.

You CAN compliment your wife TO OTHER PEOPLE.

You can talk on the phone to someone and say "Ya, my wife is really good at that sort of thing, but I am pretty clumsy.." etc

This in her earshot gets HER a compliment, but YOU are not pursuing and you wont' get any eye rolls.

If she is LOOKING for a compliment, like standing there WAITING to HEAR one then yes offer one, but I would'nt reccomend offering something that isnt' sougth after explicitly...

Your call

And her "shyness" can be a new symptom, you would handle it just he same... you need to understand OIN a lot of this is HER behaviuoral makeup based on HER history with you... we can't explain to you teh details that well... only that it sa common behaviour and that it should be respected until she indicates differently.

I am going to just step back and trust your jdugement on the complimenting thing OIN, I would'nt reccomend it, but I don't live in yoru home... its your call there.