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Originally Posted by crackprogram
yep, I bought presents for a lot of them, not all, but I made sure at least bought every kid under 15 a present. and most of the adults I was close with.
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Well, that does suck. If you usually buy most of the kids presents, and also some of the adults; and some of the adults bought presents for each other; then I'd say something's off. Not even dull, practical presents from your parents, like socks or a sweater?
I don't have many suggestions. But if Mom is around, and makes any pretension to actually liking your, tell her what happened and ask, "Mom, does the family hate me or something? Maybe I should stop giving presents to everybody else if they don't care enough to give me one. Do you think they really don't want my presents?" That's just the sort of combination load of guilt and threat to family equilibrium that tends to put most moms in full damage control mode. And if you don't get presents for _next_ Christmas after all that, then that would mean that your family -really- doesn't give a rat's ass about you. But I suspect that they do.