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I’ll be attending a wedding (which probably shouldn’t be happening) for a family member soon. Both he and his bride are recovering from alcohol and drug abuse. Not even sober for 3 months yet.

Anyway, I don’t want to give them cash or even gift cards (which could be sold to other people for cash, something they’ve done a lot of). They aren’t registered anywhere, they both have had houses of their own in the past so they have a lot of housewares.

Any ideas that don’t involve items that are easily cashed in?
Kathy N. — I understand where you’re coming from on the respect thing and I wish I could give them that respect but they worked really hard to lose it. Really we’re going for the groom’s mother, to support her since this is a tough time for her.

When the two of them decided to take advantage of the one person left in the family who would open her home to him by stealing credit cards belonging to my dead uncle and charging $6000, I lost any desire to extend respect to them. This is just one thing they’ve done to our family — if you want another highlight, he got a friend of his to come into my mother’s house and hold up my brother at gun point.

I really don’t even want to get them a gift (and wouldn’t feel too bad not getting one since he didn’t get me one for my wedding) but feel like I should.