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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mother complains all the time that she never gets a thank you note from my daughter for gifts and cards. I have asked my DD over and over to at least just send a small email. She pushes back and just won't do it. I don't understand why and I no longer know how to handle it. [b]My mother seems resentful that she goes to the effort to gave a relationship with my daughter and it seems to go nowhere.[/b] 
My mother and my wife have - and this is an understatement - a strained relationship that is, unfortunately, 99.9 percent my wife's fault. As a result, trying to be together as a family is difficult.

Any help or suggestions appreciated.[/quote]

I have realized that my DD - now 13 really doesn't care about "stuff"  so she doesn't appreciate all the trouble/thoughtfulness people have gone through to give her a gift.
What DD loves most is an event with that person - bowling, theater show, dinner at a special restaurant etc...
Perhaps your mother is trying to foster a relationship the wrong way. ??

THere is a book - Five Love Languages... [/quote]

Seriously?  A sixteen year old is perfectly capable of thanking someone for a gift, whether she likes it or not.  The suggestion that grandma should get better gifts if she doesn't like not being properly thanked is ludicrous.[/quote]

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