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My parents pay for my cell phone bill. As I said, shouldn't they pay for the privilege of talking to me? I talk to my mom twice a week (perhaps a bit more with short calls), though it varies. Dad somewhat less, but he's not much of a phone talker. When I was in college, it was more like every other day.
I bet a lot of parents have to restrain themselves from calling their kids all the time. It would be nice if they could get phone calls at least twice a month from their kids IMO.
Sometime short few min calls, Ask question of him, or return call for one of his questions. About 1x a week we normally have a long 30+ min call, on various topics.
Thanks everyone for the guilt trip. I chat with my parents in person about once a week, mostly small talk. Occasionally I'll get a text from my dad wanting to go to lunch, or what we're doing for Sunday lunch. None of hate each other, were just not the most talkative people. Honestly I think I'd get annoyed if some one called me up a couple of times a day just to say hi.
Somehow in my experience I'm expected to be the one who calls everyone, both my elders and my children. Nobody appears to have the obligation to call me.
My parents live in Florida. I'm up in CT. So I call them usually once a week, or more often if there's something especially interesting to say. Or if I know one of them just had surgery, or was feeling under the weather, I'll call just to see how they're recovering. Birthdays, anniversary, Mother's/Father's day, etc. etc. If they went on a trip, I'll call the day after they're expected back, to see how their trip was. This is all in addition to the once a week call. Sometimes - I'll call just to tell them something funny I saw or maybe I'll remember classical piece my dad used to play on the piano and want to hear a recording of it, but not remember what it's called. So I'll call my dad and hum it to him and see if he can name it for me. Usually it's a Bach fugue or similar. I'm just grateful I can sing on key
not really. My mom is happy to get a call whenever I can, which usually once a month, but she never pressures me.
I hear from my son about once a month, too, and that's fine with me. When he DOES have time, he calls and we talk for an hour or so and get caught up. That's fine with me. I would hate for him to call me more frequently because he feels obligated to when there's no other reason for the call.
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I talk to my mom twice a week (perhaps a bit more with short calls), though it varies. Dad somewhat less, but he's not much of a phone talker. When I was in college, it was more like every other day.
