Dear Queenie,
When my daughters got married last year just a few weeks from each other, my father-in-law gave us a lot of money to help out with the wedding expenses. Then at Christmastime he sent nice presents to all his other grandchildren, but nothing to my girls.
Queenie, how can he be so unfair?—Angry mother
Dear Mother,
Apparently your father-in-law considers the money he gave for your daughters’ weddings to be their (advance) Christmas presents as well as their wedding gifts.
Whatever the case, none of the grandchildren is entitled to receive any kind of gift from their grandfather. They – and you – should be appropriately grateful for whatever he chooses to give them, whenever he does so.
