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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I guess your DH didn't raise him right.[/quote]

This. He didn’t get this way all by himself.[/quote]

Or he was raised right because in their family parents and grandparents don’t get presents.

I have a branch of our family that does not give gift to kids once they graduate from college. No more gifts gifts are for children. All the adults do a service project together. That is how they decided to do xmas. You can’t tell others families how  to do xmas.

Some families pick names.[/quote]

His sister gives gifts. And the other relatives agree with stepmom but are afraid to speak up.[/quote]

Maybe they asked her not to bring gifts and she did anyway. God I hate that, the one family that gives gifts when everybody agrees not to.[/quote]

Maybe you should read the Op, because that’s not the case at all.[/quote]

You don’t know what the case is. All we know is everybody was happy except OP.[/quote]

From the OP:

“His grandmother and I had a conversation about it and she just sighed and shrugged her shoulders. His dad is upset about it too, but won't say anything to him either. Guess it's easier to just keep cranking out gifts to him than to have a real conversation.”

I’m sure she would have mentioned if he was told not to bring a gift.[/quote]

The grandparents shrugged because the OP is rude and they said nothing instead of telling her to learn her place and some manners.

His dad will pretend to take her side and tell the boy to just ignore her since she is a shit stirrer. His gift to his dad is dealing with her.

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Exactly. They didn't want to make things more awkward and more rude by telling the OP to mind her own business and read up on etiquette when it comes to gifts.[/quote]

Well hopefully this isn’t actually what you are teaching your own kids.[/quote]

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