This is "normal", the acting one way with others and something different with you...she is probably in "ruminating" mode with you, funny thing is, they feel safest being that way with the LBS, with others they have to put on "the show".
Don't read too much into it, her reactions to your gifts, keep working on and being YOU.
T^2
Thanks T. I agree it seems to be a show, family doesn't know anything about our sitch, which I know is good.
Here's a funny/sad gift tidbit: My family does an x-mas bingo game where everyone brings grab bag type gifts for the prizes. At the end we trade or give away any gifts we don't want. My sister "won" the book "5 Love Languages" that my younger sister brought, and asked me if I wanted it. I read a copy from the library a while back and was happy to accept it. When we got home W unloaded the bags and found the book before I got to it.
While holding it she says "did your sister give this to you, I guess we can donate it to good will" I said I wanted to keep it and her reply was "It didn't help your sister"
M: A really long time. Crisis: 5 years. She's still worth it.
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. -Viktor Frankl
