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Help me think of good presents for these two people, both having birthdays in just a few days.

Person #1 -

Male, single but has a girlfriend, turning 41
Extremely health-conscious, eats exclusively organic food and drinks almost no alcohol
Recently lost a grandmother so needs positivity
Style best described as "business goth"
Owns a nice two-bedroom home
Interested in 20th century political history, environmentalism, and movies
Cooks simply but often; I was thinking about cookware as a gift

Person #2

Male, single (no girlfriend), turning 47
Vegan and pretty health-conscious, but does drink
Interested in movies, science, classical music, and animal rights
Plays the flute
Owns a home, but does not care about decorating, etc.
Style best described as conservative (but not politically conservative)
Suffers from severe back problems and frequently seeks solutions such as massage, iso tank, etc.

For each person, I am looking for something in the price range of - dollars, and something I could go buy this week, rather than ordering online. (There's not enough time.)

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Its two questions really: Sorry so long here is the situation

First of all she hasn't been making the most rational decisions but she is still very self suffient and we just look in on her (as do the other family members)

Also she has always been real scatterbrained......we are also wondering when you feel the best time to suggest a retirement community or assisted living.....we worry about her living on her own in that apartment (though she thinks its great its not the best area of town anymore but she hasn't seen how its gone downhill).....but we are worried with her forgetfulness and her heart.

She will not be living with us though I can't take that......there would be too much fighting and we don't have room, our extra room is set aside to be the nursery.

So when do you feel the best time is to suggest that we just don't like her being alone and so far away from the family

And for the other issue the wierd issue:

But this has to do with her emotional state

My husbands 70 year old grandmother (who raised him) who is really young acting for her age, who lost her husband 2 years ago and is very lonely.

Decided enough was enough so she set her sights on finding an old high school boyfriend. Well she found him and they started writing back and forth and he came to town to visit some relatives and stopped in to see her for a few days. He is a little older than her and in okay health but she wanted to be more than friends and he made it real clear he didn't appreciate her advancements and just wanted to be friends

(He never married)

Well he mentioned once the possiblity of her going out to visit so she called him up and said she was coming out for christmas (well first of all you don't invite yourself to someone house) and he said no (she did this because we were leaving town)

Well he sent her a gift over the holidays and she wants to tell him that he really hurt her....but

feel she never should have set her sights on him like that in the first place and should have accepted when he clearly told her that he just wanted to be friends.

The worst part is she is coming to my husband (her grandson, well son for all intensive purposes) and asking advice on her love life

Well my husband has some issues with that...because his grandfather was completely devoted to her and would as soon die than move on if she had passed first.

I told her to thank him for the gift and not burn bridges. He wants to be her friend and that is what she needs right now....not a boyfriend but a friend.

But she is lonely and stubborn.

How can I help my husband cope with her right now and the wierdness and how can I help her understand that it makes my husband uncomfortable

and that she needs to slow down and not drive this guy away or any guy.

What advice would you have given?

I know she is just lonely but its hard for my husband

by the way she is his adopted mother

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