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October 6, 2022 56 mins

What do you do when your mom hates giving gifts but does it anyway, but with strings attached?

That's what today's episode is all about. A listener wrote in wanting to know how do they handle a mom who makes a big deal about how much they pay for every gift and it's getting old.

 

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