Interesting story about your friend. On a perspective it is a fair game, as he does not want you to go out your boundaries on the other way around, a gift is a gift, no need for reciprocity in this. If I give someone something, I don't expect it back, or at least this I've start doing in the past 5 years after hitting the wall hard. A guy I knew, had the wedding 3 months before ours. I was thinking also in terms of reciprocity and gave him a fairly large sum as a wedding gift. He appeared at our wedding, but he did not gave us a single dime, saying, that he forgot his envelope and we will met after that. Since than he disappeared. That was a good life lesson for me. Give as gift what you can and don't expect anything back. Life has more beauty to it since then.
On the vote topic now, I do randomly, from case to case. :)
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I understood my friend, especially since I saw him apply this principle all the time, it is obvious that it is common for him. It is obvious that life in the business environment has profoundly changed him.
I was shocked because for several years we did not meet and did not notice these changes, in our youth we shared the same piece of bread and I did not think that I would be treated almost like a business partner. I wasn't upset at all and I understood that he couldn't tell the difference.
Yes, the event at your wedding was ugly, it's not about reciprocity, it's about respect and morals. From such events we learn.
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