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[quote=Anonymous]I can't believe the gall of your friend and her pushover H who actually has the audacity to present these demands to his parents. Yikes.

My ILs believe that all should be equal and are to the dime on everything they do. We once randomly got a check in the mail because they gave some piece of antique furniture to my BIL and his wife when the wife expressed an interest in the piece. In their minds, the only fair thing was to cut a check for the value of the furniture to my H to square things up. I have always found that behavior strange.  We neither wanted or needed the furniture plus we live quite a distance away.

My parents are more in the "it all evens out in the end" school of thought and my brother and I are different places in life. He just bought a house, so my mom might buy him new bath towels or a kitchen appliance if she sees one he needs. We are having a second baby so if she sees a box of diapers on sale she might pick us up a box. When we were younger, he was into expensive travel sports and needed expensive orthodontics. I wanted/needed neither. Children, adult ones included may have differing needs throughout life and all things cannot be nickel and dime even and it seems exhausting to me to keep a running tally of such things. [/quote]

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