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[quote=Anonymous]My parents only ever call me to complain about my SIL (my brother's wife). Most recently, my mom texted me cryptically to "please call me when you have a minute today" and I thought someone had died. So, I called her right away and spent 20 minutes listening to her complain about planning a visit to see my brother and his family and how my SIL was being difficult about which weeks might work for a visit. To be fair, my SIL can be a little dramatic/difficult about planning vacations. We had a family vacation fall through last year because she couldn't wait a week for me to start my new job before asking me to commit to a week-long vacation with them, despite my explanations that I couldn't commit until after I had at least [i]met [/i]my boss. So I'm not unsympathetic to my mom's frustrations.

But she and my dad never call me (or even text) just to say hi or to ask about my kids. I once tried to see how long it would take them to contact me if I didn't contact them and, more to the point, I didn't let my kids call them either. I thought eventually they would at least ask to facetime my kids. But the experiment went on for a month and a half before I finally gave up and let my kids be the ones to call them again.

I don't necessarily need advice or anything. Just venting.[/quote]

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