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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mom never calls me, either, but she has specifically told me it's that she feels I am really busy and she doesn't want to call at an inconvenient time.  I've told her she can call whenever she wants but she still doesn't' want to "bother me".  She started this when I went back to work FT (she called regularly when I was a SAHM).  I realized she's TRYING to be considerate in her own way, although it still annoys me. [/quote]

+1. OP my mother was like this. It literally started back in college in the days of "I don't want to pay to talk to your roommate, and you're never there." So, that became her excuse for never calling me and waiting for me to call "when I had time to talk."

This went on for 35 years, until she passed away recently at the age of 90.

It always bugged me and she said she would try to do better, but never did. It was something I just had to accept. FWIW, there is nothing in the world I wouldn't give to be able to pick up the phone right now and call her again.

I will say this, though: What your mother and my mother and PP's mother don't understand is that it's hard to have an "adult" relationship with a "child," when the burden is 100% on one party to keep up the connection. [/quote]

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