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Each kid is different and each family and each situation is different.
I have one daughter whose husband is deployed - we talk nearly every day.
I have an estranged daughter who I rarely talk with.
I have a son who lives overseas in a different time zone and we talk about once a week.
I have another son who lives just a few hours away but he's living la vida loca as a single man down in Austin and we generally only touch base (comment, like, whatever) on FB and actually talk on the phone or in person about once a month or less.
I have a step son who I text back and forth with about once a month. He also calls about once a month.
My mom has dementia - I talk with her about every other day and go visit her twice a week.
When my dad was alive, he and I talked on the phone nearly every day.
When my husband works out of town, we talk every evening.
My best friend and I talk about once a week and try to meet for lunch about once a week too. Mainly we talk on the phone just to schedule a lunch date and then catch up there.
My dad left me a Morse Code thingie when he died! I still haven't figured out yet how to use it so I'm still standing over my fire pit with a Native American blanket every evening instead.
Listen to YYZ by Rush, you'll learn all you need to know...about three letters, anyway.
I understand what a well and ok is, at least for me. My husband died three years ago leaving me very much alone. No close relatives and such, and after I had an emergency life-saving operation, I rely on my few friends to check up on me and make sure I'm still alive. I do have and wear an emergency alert device, so I do have that just in case, but it's reassuring to know that someone cares enough to check on me once in awhile. Since I'm now 70, I'm looking into some kind of company that will do a wellness check call everyday. Wouldn't be so important if I didn't have so many critters to take care of. if i didn't have them, I'd probably check into some old folks home and play checkers and bean bag baseball, lol.
My dad left me a Morse Code thingie when he died! I still haven't figured out yet how to use it so I'm still standing over my fire pit with a Native American blanket every evening instead.
Meanwhile, some poor Native American goes without. You really should give it back.
I do all the project management for my mother in assisted living. I'm New England. My sister is on the west coast of Canada. I email or call whenever anything funky is happening. We tend to email significant events in our lives. If nothing special is happening, we might have a 2 month communication gap occasionally. We're both busy people.
My mother can't remember 30 seconds ago. I've dialed back visiting to maybe 10 to 12 times per year. I employ people to come in 4 days per week as eyeballs above and beyond what assisted living does.
My father died 7 years ago. I might call my stepmother in Florida a couple times per year. The last was hurricane evacuation season. My sister and I will likely call at Christmas.
I have a list of maybe 10 decades-long friendships where I call people occasionally if there's been a big gap since I've seen them.
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