Have you ever put “limit” on how much you and other family members were going to spend on each other at Christmas? On one hand, we want to keep each other from unnecessary financial stress. One the other hand, deeper than that, there is sense in which we don’t want there to be in imbalance in what one gets over another.

In part 2 of this series, we’re going to look at what to do when what we’ve gotten and what we need to give isn’t equal or fair.