Are you a giver or a taker?

I'll give you the shirt off my back but never, and I mean never, wave a slice of pizza in my face because that's when I become a taker.

I prefer to give rather than take. Sometimes I give too much but I still do it all the time. On here and at home. Makes a person feel good inside to give !

I'm a giver...to a fault even...but still a giver none the less.

It's interesting (and perhaps amazing) that all respondents are "givers". We REALLY need some "takers" around here to get back in balance. (Or is that no-one wishes to be seen as a "taker"?)

I give if I can, and take if it works for me and the giver.

Don't we all?

I'm a taker as I have everything I want and nothing that I don't

I am such a giver I don't like taking. I always think it's better to give than receive. My mom raised me to be a giver not a receiver.

Both, isn't life about giving and recieveing? So we are all takers as well.

I am both.

I think a balance should be involved ... In terms of giving AND taking.  If you only give that would suggest that you refuse to 'take' something as important as love from someone. 

Don't under estimate the importance of 'taking'. It also has it's place in the realm of interpersonal relationships.

My grandmother taught me a very valuable lesson when I was a young'n.  She was a 'giver' .. And when I went to visit her, she would always want to present me with a small gift when I left .. She didn't have much, so that 'gift' would be comprised of a bar of soap, a can of soup or peaches .. Something of that nature.  I would often refuse it, thinking she needed those items, and taking them would cause her to be short on supply, and I really couldn't care less about having another bar of soap in my bathroom cabinet .. That is until my mother explained .. "She has so little to give, and this 'gift' to you is not just about the item she is gifting you, it's more about how it makes her feel when she gives it" .. THAT changed my whole perspective on taking something from someone so willing to give .. Sometimes the gift is far bigger than you can actually 'see'...and by taking you are actually returning the favor by gifting back.