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[quote=Anonymous] You now know her "favors" come with strings. Only accept a favor when you are in the mood for the strings. Sure it's manipulative of her because she's not just saying "I'm lonely and want to visit." Instead she's creating guilt because what kind of person accepts free food and won't chat with you for a while? In my family all favors and gifts (birthday gifts, etc) come with major unspoken strings that may not come up immediately, but they will be dangled and used to manipulate.This happens even when they do nice things for my kids or give them gifts. So we don't accept favors and we have a no gifts policy. It didn't go over well for quite a while, but it eventually shut down a lot of draining dynamics.[/quote]
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