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Receiving gifts is hard. It is a learned skill, and does not come naturally to most people. You need to get out of your head, and into hers: This is her expressing something to you that is hard. Not easy. Honor where the gift is coming from, not the gift itself. Receive it fully and generously and with your heart. Appreciate the giver. Anything less is dishonoring the gift, and disempowering the giver... devaluing their gift, at the very moment they are most vulnerable and exposed. - Then put the money aside. Months later, you can spend it on her. Take her out to dinner. Get her that thing she wants/needs that she wouldn't buy for herself. Never tell her where the money came from. You both win.