Parental phone calls

[Anonymous]

I talk to my mom and dad several times a week. I talk to my inlaw's at least once a week. We are all very close.

[Anonymous]

Every day

[Anonymous]

Once a week. We occasionally text and email and share photos, as well, and we Skype with their grandchild a couple times a month.

[Anonymous]

I talk to my dad once every 2-3 weeks and we ping each other on email periodically. I have two young kids, so I'm usually sending pics out to both my parents & the ILs. I chat with my mom less often simply because she's not a phone person, so maybe once a month or a little less often.

My husband IMs with his mom everyother day and has a long Skype call with her at least once a month, sometimes twice a month. They're in regular contact, but not always by phone due to time zone differences and the hassle of making international calls.

[Anonymous]

I think if you're the type of person who can have a quick 5 minute chat and your parents are fine with that, then you're more likely to talk a couple times a week. If either party wants 20+ minutes, then that's a set aside block of time. My ILs like having 1-2 hours, so that means 1-2xmonth. I would be up for 5 minutes check ins twice a week but can't do an hour long phone call frequently.

[Anonymous]

DD and I FaceTime with my mom once a day (DH will also do this with my mom if I'm busy and he has DD, my dad will pop in at some point during the convo). MIL - maybe once a month, and I'm usually the one to initiate (or tell DH he should give them a call).

[Anonymous]

I talk to my Mom just about every day, my Dad about once every 2 weeks, my MIL every 6 weeks, my FIL only emails or texts. I am not a phone person at all unless it is my Mom or sister, I don't know why. Maybe it's because I know my family so well, and I still don't feel very close to my in-laws after knowing them 11 years.

[Anonymous]

I talked to my mom nearly every day before she died. God, I miss her.

I talk to my dad maybe once a week,but it's awkward.

My husband never talks to his parents on the phone, but we visit them (about an hour's drive) once every other month or so.

We're expecting our first kid. Not sure how that will change thing a.

[Anonymous]

I talk to my mom 2-3 times a day. She's in California.

[Anonymous]

15 min phone call maybe every 3 weeks or so plus the occassional email. I generally call from the car while commuting home - while they complain they dont hear from me, my parents are also "way too busy" to pick up the phobe themselves.
This is plenty. Having a kid did not chznge things except that now we have marginally more stuff to talk about

[Anonymous]

2-3 times a week for about 30 minutes. Usually when I'm walking the dog.

[Anonymous]

It used to be at least once a week, but now it's like once every couple of weeks. My parents have never been very involved in my life. It's really sad for me. It feels like they don't care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I talk to my mom 2-3 times a day. She's in California.

Me too. I also talk to dad about once a week and my brother, once in two weeks. DH talks to his parents every day, I don't talk to MIL at all, talk to FIL about once a month.

[Anonymous]

At least once a day. It's a family tradition apparently because my mother talks to her parents once a day and my father did the same with his until they passed away. I also make sure to call my in-laws at least twice a week (I get along very well with them and like them) and since DH is usually around when I do that, he ends up talking to them then as well (MIL told me she really appreciated it because before I joined the family, he'd call once a month, not because he didn't love them but because he's not big on dialing the phone to talk to anyone).

[Anonymous]

Most of my adulthood I talked to my mom once or twice a week. My mom is now mid 70s and more importantly, much more elderly. So I call her almost daily just to check in.