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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]sad that so many are making this about money, as if you are somehow keeping score as to how much you spend on others and how much they spend on you.  (of course some people really cannot afford to entertain much, and you need to respect that and not push.)  we don't like to host for a variety of reasons, but when invited, we bring a bottle or two of wine, maybe some dessert, etc., so I'm sure we more than cover our share.  The other have fun houses for entertaining and they enjoy it and I really doubt they resent it.[/quote]

I don't "keep score," as you put it.  There is one family that's had lunch or dinner at our house many times and who never brought anything more than a bottle of wine.  They've never invited us to their house for a meal.  At first I thought it was they are self conscious about their house. Then one day the woman mentioned to me that she was hosting two other families for pizza a game night, and I realized that she does host other families -- just not ours.  Sometimes she'll say something like her husband misses mine, but she never proposes getting our families together.  I can only conclude that between their other friends and the local family she has in the area, they have enough going on.  Maybe I'm misreading that, but we don't host them anymore.  We have a finite amount of time and energy so it makes sense to spend time with families who reciprocate our interest in them.  I don't think of that as keeping score.[/quote]

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