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[quote=Anonymous]I’m trying to be a good daughter, but every time I call my parents (my mom, really, because my dad is hard of hearing) it makes my blood pressure go sky high. My mom is lonely and enjoys talking on the phone, so I make time for a 20 minute call a couple times a week. Yet every time I call, no matter the time of day, it seems like a bad time. It goes like this: I call and inevitably my dad will answer, but my mom will be right there, I can hear her. My dad will struggle to hear me, will ask my mom to take the phone, and she will say something like, talk to her for a minute while I get a drink of water/use the restroom/finish stirring the spaghetti sauce/put on a cardigan. It’s always some weird thing she is preoccupied doing so she can’t take the phone. And this leaves me spending 10 minutes shouting and repeating things to my dad before I even talk to my mom.

I’ve asked her to tell me when it’s a good time. Then I call her at that time and the same thing happens. Then she will pull this “it would be nice if you could make more time to talk” BS. It’s like she craves conversation while simultaneously not wanting to put in any effort to receive it.

How do I handle this without going insane myself![/quote]

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