I have friends that send me lives all of the time and I send lives too. The problem I think is this, you have to have full lives before you can send any lives. It takes a long time to fill up and sometimes you can forget to send off lives before you began playing your own game. So maybe that could be the problem .
Bbyas, that's the kicker sometimes. I forget to send lives when I initially login. My problem is getting lives from 1 - 2 people. I'm hoping to have friends who will remember to send me a life when they login 😊