How often do you call your parents? (grandma, husband, college)

[Infamous92]

During the day when we're both out I call my mother or she calls me, we speak every single day, then again we live in the same house lol.

[kemcnyc]

I call my Mom once or twice a week. It tends to be the same conversation each time unfortunately as my Mother has Dementia. It is like the same rehearsed questions over & over. It usually pretty positive and upbeat though which is good as I see a lot posts saying how their parents tend to be very negative.

The days of a nice spontaneous chat are over unfortunately. Dementia is a sad thing. My Mom seems relatively happy but she is practically a different person from the Mother that raised me. (My Father passed away about 5 years ago).

[suzannewright]

I talk to my family on the phone atleast once a week. But, we text almost daily!!!

[checking out]

Originally Posted by Mercury Cougar

Never. My parents are abusive religious wackos with whom I have had to cut off contact.

However, my grown children (who live very long distances away) talk to me at least two or three times a week.

And I take care of my father who was wayward in every way, much to my regular disruption.

At least your parents are happy together, my mother, g*d bless her soul, still supports her assholdness ex-husband without any assistance from her other children, this all being decades after the fact.

May we all assist each other and serve in our role and know when it is time to stop.

Support your children for one day you may need them.

[Sampaguita]

We live ~1800 miles from my parents. Since we've had children (18 mos), I speak to my Mother almost every day & sometimes several times a day. Mom likes lots of updates.

Dad less so but if he answers the phone we chat. Dad runs the "machine" though so that we can Skype. Very funny to watch Mom & Dad (in their 80s) getting the hang of Skype & trying to get the kids to interact with them. I think my children think their grandparents live on the computer screen like Elmo.

[Granny Sue]

I talk to my Dad about once a month......it's a duty call and nothing more.

I talk to my mom every other week....it takes about 3 sentences for her to start whining or *****ing so it's a struggle.

[mcatp]

Talk to my mother everyday. Since I live alone she likes to know I'm still alive everyday! lol

[Mightyqueen801]

I usually talk to my mother once a week, sometimes several times a week if something interesting is going on. She lives about four miles from me. Every two weeks or so I play Scrabble with her, too.

[Kibbiekat]

We left my parents and in-laws in CA when we moved to CO. I call my parents a couple times a week, and e-mail in between. My MIL is difficult to talk to, and she's not "my" mother, so I don't really call her. I wait for her to call. My husband doesn't call her either. We text sometimes. The record for not talking to her was 6 weeks. We e-mailed probably twice in that time.

[maggie2101]

Originally Posted by gue

wish they were still alive..used to call them daily...

+1