I mean that you only give gifts if they give back or you give them for the meaning of giving as tha is the important thing regardless if they give back or not and also regardless if the gift is small or big as that is not important.
My older sister is of that thinking she gives back only to people who gives her. Im the opposite
Here im talking about direct relatives (our uncle and his wife). We have an uncle that he for Christmas never give us presents but that is becuase he had always been like that for many years, I mean that his his personality anyway, not pay much attention to the real meaning of Christmas, even if he does organize dinners with some relatives (not us anyway) he is not much of a giver, he was when he was married to his first wife. After he re married he no longer gives gifts in Christmas. But he is my dad brother and my dad and him were always very close after my dad passed away many years ago, lets say we got distant with my uncle but still we take him into account for some relatives gatherings, is nto that we stopped seeing him completely but not as much as when my dad was alive. We invite him for some birthday celebrations but not often either.
Anyway but for Christmas he never give us anything but in my mom case she laways want to give him soemthing, it is her brother in law. My sister has another way of thinking, she told me that she never give him anything becauase he never gives her anything.
What do you think?
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I give to people I care about because I care about them. If I think a person doesn't care about me, I'm not going to care about them. Therefore, if someone I give gifts to never makes me feel they care for me, I'm going to stop giving them gifts because I'm going to stop caring about them.
So, in a sense I only gift those that give gifts, but not for gift reciprocity. It's care reciprocity that matters.
Gift giving can be a tradition a obligation a social norm for your family and sometimes a it a judgement system. Sometimes all of them. I think it is reasonable to structure what is reasonable to you and what you personally think is warranted. Often these decisions are scrutinized by others but ultimately it's a gift not a reciprocity. You give because you want to. If consistently see others not responding and they are not children
I think it's fine to stop