How often to you talk to your parents?

SamSpade

SamSpade

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I don't like to talk on the phone, really. With only one or two persons excepted in my life, most of my phone conversations my aim is to get the most said in the least amount of time.

I guess because because normally, I putter around so much that when I *FINALLY* get around to getting something done, the very last thing I need is to be interrupted. And the other thing is, it's almost always at a VERY inopportune time for ME.

So with my folks, I know they usually want to TALK. Everyone in my family is a talker, including me - but what most people who know me think is hysterical is when I tell them that I am the QUIET ONE in the family - because on a normal day I can give Jabba a good contest for talking.

But "most people who know me" usually DON'T think it's such a funny comment when they MEET my family - because they find out I AM NOT KIDDING. They are sweet, kind generous people, all of them. But they can't just "be". You can't just sit with them without every quiet moment become filled with conversation.

Before Bluejay? Probably only if they called me first. Since Bluejay, a little less often than once a week, and this is probably (among many) the number one reason they like my wife so much - family is extremely important to her, and she makes it a priority with my family as well.
 
aps45819

aps45819

24/7 Single Dad
Saw this thread and called my folks last night. We usually talk 2-3 times a month.
I give my 21 yr old daughter a call on her birthday, catch up on what she's been doing the last year and ask her to call her grandmother.
She hasn't initiated a call in many years. :ohwell:
 
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star

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My parents threw me out of their house when I was younger and I havent talked to them since. its a shame because my daughter will never have any grandparents. i wish things were different but thats how it is.
 
LexiGirl75

LexiGirl75

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I'm not a phone person at all.

Everyone will usually call me before I call them. If nothing is important I don't pick up the phone.

I speak to my mom 2-3 times a week more if she is in a calling mood. I speak to my oldest son when he calls since every time I try and call him someone's on the internet (no DSL at Nana's).

Rarely do I feel like calling his dad to say tell my son to call me when you get home because dad usually wants to talk like old friends and he is cool but I ain't all that in to him.

Just want him to do right by my child and if he doesn't THAT'S when I want to talk to him. My son is 12.10y/o and it's been a long road so Baby Daddy doesn't really have much room for error. :shrug:
 
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Pandora

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cattitude said:
I just spent the night in the ER with my dad...he's now in the ICU. You just never know...
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I'm sorry to hear that - my last week started with my grandmother in ICU. She is home now hopefully convalescing.

I was thinking last night that it would be an awful night to have to run out for an emergency. :ohwell:

Vrai,

My mother has been dead a long time and my grandmother kind of jumped up to the plate and filled in as that role for me in some ways. She calls me some weeks twice a day, or just 2-3 times per week, but I heard from her no less than 1 time per week at any given time over the years. I'd make comments like, well, you know I just spoke to you yesterday? :confused: I had to work a way to space the phone calls out a couple of days. I think she got the hint because I called her once, two days in a row (she had been sick) and she said *ahem* are you going to call me everyday. :eyebrow: Isn't that a crock? Gotta love 'em while they are still around.

Edit: People say, well, I speak to my such and such everyday, we are close, but don't let that guilt get you. It isn't a matter of being close. I think your mother is much like my grandmother and has very little nice things to say. For my frame of mind, I had to space the calls out. It was hit or miss and sometimes the phone calls put me in a very bad mood :cussing:, especially when she rags out my youngest sister, who is really is a good girl.
 
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Oh yes, Sam is a talker, and I could agree with the comment that he could give jabba a run for her money. Imagine that. :lmao:


I talk to my mom everyday- sometimes 2x's a day. Her and I are very close. Even much closer since my biological dad died when I was 16. I was very close to him- and would talk to him almost everyday. My step dad, I will talk to him in person more than on the phone- just cause he isnt a phone person- but- put my daughter on the phone who knows limited words (cow, car, dog, go, no, duck) and he will talk to her for as long as she will let him. :lmao:

I talk to my maternal grandma, and my aunt about every two weeks, if not earlier, and my paternal grandmother about the same.
 
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cattitude

cattitude

My Sweetest Boy
vraiblonde said:
Sorry to hear that. How's he doing?
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:yay: Just talked to his doctor. Bleeding has stopped..now they have to do some things to figure out the source. All in all, he's okay. I'm going back to the hospital at noon...no way I can make the 8:30 - 9:30 visiting window.

And thanks guys.
 
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alucard

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I try and talk to my parents at least once a week. If don't call them, they will usually call me.
 
jazz lady

jazz lady

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cattitude said:
I just spent the night in the ER with my dad...he's now in the ICU. You just never know...
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Sorry to hear that, Catt. My thoughts and prayers are with you. :huggy:
 
LordStanley

LordStanley

I know nothing
I talk to my parents and Brother and Sister at least once a month. They are clear across the country now, and Mom and Dad will Likely retire out there.
 
K_Jo

K_Jo

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If my mom had her way, we'd talk once an hour. But she doesn't, so we talk a couple times a week. And my dad yells at her when she doesn't let him say hi. :lol: I really hate the phone. :ohwell:
 
LordStanley

LordStanley

I know nothing
K_Jo said:
If my mom had her way, we'd talk once an hour. But she doesn't, so we talk a couple times a week. And my dad yells at her when she doesn't let him say hi. :lol: I really hate the phone. :ohwell:
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I hate the phone too..... Id rather send an email, that way there is no awkward silence when there is nothing else left to talk about.

Not much changes in my life, so I see no reason to call. Unless something new happens, I just text them or send them a picture of their grandson, just so they know we are still alive.
 
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Katie

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I talk to my mom everyday, sometimes twice if something comes up that I have to share.

I talk to my dad about once a month maybe more lately because of his health issue.
 
mamissa3

mamissa3

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when my mom was alive we talked several times a day when she lived in another state. When she moved heer she lived with me and than when she moved up the street i was there or she was here with me. I call her mother everynight since she died and my father a couple of times a week. My husband talks to his parents occasionally
 
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