Parental phone calls

[Anonymous]

Out of curiosity, as an adult, how often do you talk to your parents on the phone if they are long distance from you?

[Anonymous]

I literally have no contact with my parents. Dh talks to his a minimum of once a week, but I think it's more like 2-3 times a week.

[Anonymous]

Once a week. Occasionally an extra call to coordinate if they're visiting. We also email a few times a week.

Now that we have kids, we do FaceTime with inlaws weekly. DH would go weeks without talking to them if left to his own devices. He is not a phone person. MiL also texts nearly daily.

[Anonymous]

I try to keep it to once a week for a chat, and call them on Sunday. My mother will up that by doing what she calls "checking in" with a phone call about nothing whatsoever. She's bored.

[Anonymous]

It changed as they aged. In the early years, we talked once or twice a week and gradually added to that as they aged. Now that my mother has passed (84), we try to Facetime everyday with my Dad (83).

[Anonymous]

A phone call on the weekend about every 2-3 weeks, sometimes longer.

[Anonymous]

Mom and I talk about every day for 20 minutes or so on my way into work. I talk to Dad a couple times a week. His hearing is going, so phone calls are harder.

[Anonymous]

Almost daily to either my mom or dad. They are abroad but we are in constant communication. With my siblings about once a week.

[Anonymous]

1x per week for both DH and I. Longish call perhaps 30 minutes or more. A few e-mails between me and mom during the week. With siblings..rare. Only when discussing and issue or planning something,

[Anonymous]

I talk to my mom a couple of times a month, but it's not kept to a regular schedule. We also email/text a fair amount. She and my dad FaceTime with DD maybe once a month.

My dad will get on the phone if he's around when I'm talking to my mom, but I usually only talk to him once every couple of months.

[Anonymous]

Before my mom died, we talked just about every day for 15-20 minutes. My wife talks to her mom once a week unless there is a reason to talk more often - a health problem or planning holidays or something like that.

[Anonymous]

At least a few times a week. Many weeks every day. FaceTime with both sets of grandparents once a week and on request, starting once DC was a few months old.

[Anonymous]

Usually once or twice a week. We exchange emails every couple of days as well.

H usually talks to his parents every Sunday. I have no idea if he emails them with any regularity.

[Anonymous]

Every other day almost. My mother is 90.

As a younger adult, it was once a week while my husband was calling his almost every day.

Our college kids are in contact every few days.

[Anonymous]

We text pretty much daily, and talk on the phone 1-2 times per week.