Male, sorry.
'Sokay. I only like you as a friend anyway. 
Anyway, my mother only lives a few minutes away, so we talk and see each other pretty often. A lot of times it’s when she needs something done around the house, heh.
Haven’t seen my dad since he died in '72.
Male, 40’s.
Female, 34. I live 50 miles south of either parent.
I call my mom once a week, but if I’m really busy I’ll send her an e-mail instead. She almost never calls me, nor does she ever e-mail just to see what’s up – the only e-mails I get from her are replies to my messages, or forwarded jokes. I see her a handful of times per year, typically for holidays and birthdays. The only thing we do together outside of her house (or mine, the once a year she comes down to visit me) is go out to lunch or dinner.
I talk to my father rarely, usually only to arrange a visit. He’s not a phone person. Every now and then we’ll exchange an e-mail or two. I see him a handful of times per year, too, also usually for holidays/birthdays, but sometimes we’ll go to a play or concert together for no special reason. We went to California together in February, and it’s the most time we’d spent with each other in years. I think we’re both a little surprised to still be speaking. 
My 33-year-old brother lives near both of them, and sees/talks to them way more often than I do. He does his laundry at Mom’s, so he sees her at least once a week and I think he talks to her several times during the week. I know he sees Dad pretty frequently, too, but I’m not sure how often.
Female, 42. I’m not much of a phone person to begin with.
Both of my parents live in town (though not together). I can go weeks without talking to either of them, but I generally talk to them once every couple to a month or so.
I don’t talk to my mother more often because she just aggravates me. She tries to make me feel guilty for not calling more often, and she has a very bad habit of telling me how I should do things.
My dad and I don’t talk all that often because we only call each other if we’ve got something new to report or if my half sister is coming up from Oregon. We don’t feel the need to talk all that often, and we’re both happy with that.
We all spend EVERY holiday together though. Frankly, I’m sick of it, but the mom’s are getting older, both are alone, so there really isn’t any choice.
Dad still has his wife. Dad and his wife don’t spend EVERY holiday with us, but they’ve spent a few.
The in-law thing (in re: to other thread). I actually like my MIL. My FIL has been dead several years now. We see MIL about once a month or my husband talks to her at least once a week. She e-mails us jokes all the time.
My mother doesn’t have a PC, so we don’t hear from her that way.
My Dad e-mails jokes all the time too.
Female, 30.
I talk to my mom about 5 times a week I’d say. I usually see her in person about that often too, dad a bit less so since he’s out of the house more. I work about a half mile from my parents house, so I go there for lunch every weekday. (Free lunch! Free laundry!) Mom and Dad are retired but work part time, so they’re not always home. If I haven’t seen my mom in a few days, she’ll call me just to check in/give me news or updates. My grandmothers are both very elderly, and my brother is getting married in 3 months, so we have lots to talk about. My dad is very much not a phone person; if I call and he answers he’ll chitchat for a minute then give the phone to mom. When I wasn’t working so close to them, I usually talked to my mom on the phone 3-4 times a week and saw them every couple weeks.
I lived in California for a while, and we emailed daily and spoke by phone once a week. I didn’t see my parents for 6 months when I lived there, which is by far the longest I’d ever gone without seeing them.
Again, keep in mind, this is Rhode Island, where most people live within 5 miles of where they grew up. (Okay I sorta made that statistic up, but you get the picture.)
I’m about a 7-hour drive away from my parents, so I only see them two or three times a year. I talk to my mother about once a week, or more often when something is going on we need to discuss. I don’t talk to my father very often because he doesn’t like to talk on the phone; I get all the news from Mom and she acts as the go-between.
Fifty year old female. I talk with my mom at least once a day (when I get home from work or when not working, when I get up in the morning and usually several times during the day/evening), email her from work first thing in the morning and expect a response in a timely fashion. The reason for this close contact is that each of us lives alone and is not very social. If either of us, say, broke a leg in the shower, the chances of getting help from elsewhere are slim. This way we keep an eye on one another. Also, we enjoy chatting (well, much of the time - yes, 86 year old moms and their 50 year old daughters still fight!). She lives just a couple of blocks away - say, 10 minutes for her or five for me. But it’s sometimes several weeks between getting together.
My dad lives about a mile away in the winter, but is remarried, so in his case it’s usually a couple or so times a week, maybe less. Generally I have dinner with them once a week or so - dad is a great cook. In the summer, they live up in the Adirondacks, and we talk every week or two - neither of us has ever really shaken the emotional impact of early long distance prices. I try to get up there at least once a summer - it’s beautiful and I love it. And my dad, and his wife.
I have two older brothers, both of whom are also single, and both of whom live quite a distance away. They usually are in touch via phone with my mom once a week or so, and sporadically by email. I’m not really sure how often they talk to my dad, but I think one about the same as my mom, the other much less frequently.
Male, 28, single, pretty cute in a good light. Interests include… sorry.
Now that you mention it, it has been a few days longer than normal. I’d better call my Mom tomorrow.
I talk to my Mom 2-3 times a week on average. It’s usually that I want to talk to her about something specific (she’s kinda my Cecil Adams of mundane matters, especially of a medical nature), but if nothing comes up she calls me just to chat.
I usually call my parents once a week, Sunday evening. Mostly, I call to talk to my dad, but he always lets mom have the phone when he’s done talking (because, as he says, she’s “chomping at the bit”) - which means I’m subjected to 30-60 minutes of her jabbering on about nothing, never letting me get in a word edgewise.
28, male.
I usually end up talking to both my mom and my dad on average once every three or so weeks. Dad lives a two hour drive from me and mom lives in Oklahoma. I’m not much of a phone person so if possible I try to avoid calling people unless there is something specific to talk about or if it’s just been a while. They usually do the same.
Female, 27, and I live about a thousand miles north of my parents. I call them or they call me once or twice a week. We talk for an hour or two at a time to catch up on all the news.
Female, 28. I talk to my dad about once a week (my mother’s deaf and prefers not to speak on the phone) and I try to email my parents once a week, too. Right now, they live 2 and a half hours away. I’m hoping they’ll move closer soon, since 1) I like spending time with my folks and 2) They’re getting older and aren’t in great health.
Female, 28, I talk to my mother probably about once a week… or more. My father, he pops on now and then on special occasions, and lately more often since my computer has decided it hates email and will do anything it can to not receive or open it. Even the free internet emails are being rejected. heaves computer out the window and wishes the husband would hurry up and just build one … properly
So we used to keep in touch primarily through email (I moved 3000 miles away, so they can’t just pop in for dinner), but now the phone bills are getting high. There’s a certain gleefullness my mother can barely contain over this. Phones are what respectable people use, or so her voice conveys. So I’ve been relaxing in the tub, or in the middle of cooking up some new masterpiece, or, god forbid, taking a well-deserved nap in the middle of the day, when the phone will ring, and I peek at it with one eye, see it’s my mother, and I always answer the phone when it’s from home. Always. Even if I know… because what if it’s an emergency? What with my uncle recently dying, my aunt a year before him, my father beating cancer, my younger brother… being my younger brother, my nanny getting older every day… who knows? Nope, just Mother, wanted to say hi, hey, did you hear about this new diet/Sylvia Browne book noit’sdifferentthantheoneshewrotelastweek/that guy that fell out of a helicopter and into a shark’s mouth?
And though I roll my eyes… ah. I love her. It’s cool. smacks computer upside the head and begs it to like email again
Male (else I’d be La_Kabong, wouldn’t I?), 52. I’m something of a phoneaphobic, so talk to my Mom about twice a month on average. E-mail two or three times a week. She’s in PA. I’m in TX. I’m going up there next week for my yearly visit (everybody: “Awwww”).
Dad’s dead, or at least pinin’ for the fjords, so haven’t heard a peep from him since 2001.
I’ve got a brother who’s successfully nursed a white-hot grudge against my parents for decades, and he holds the undisputed family record for non-communication: approximately 23 years and counting. Second brother (who, BTW, hates first brother for having abandoned his parents) holds down second with a paltry two-year interval of silence.
Male, 23.
I call my mother about once or twice a week. I speak to my father probably once o month or so; pretty much when he answers the phone for Mom I talk to him for 5 or 10 minutes, then he gives the phone to Mom.
I also speak to my mother on IM 2 or 3 times per week usually.
Female, 48. I’m in Ohio, Mom’s in Mexico. I call her weekly, Sunday evening. Sometimes she’ll call me midweek if there’s something special happening with family or some other news to share. My brother is a year younger and also calls her weekly.
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M/42 next month and I talk to my folks twice a week normally. I call them every Sunday and Wednesday night just to keep up to date. We don’t talk for long unless there’s specific news but it’s good to keep in touch.
Male, 28. I talk to my mom 4 or 5 times a week, sometimes just for fun (The “I can’t think of who this famous person is” kind of a thing) and it’s 30 seconds, once or twice just to say Hi, I love you (Yeah, I’m a momma’s boy). I have two brothers in the USMC, one who’s on his second tour of Iraq now, so mom needs the lift. Also, she’s a riot and a touchstone.
Dad, meh, maybe once every two months. We’re not really close and he’s bigoted and socially offensive in a multitude of ways. We’d both enjoy something closer, but it never works out, but that’s fine as we’re classic stoic Irish. We both pretty much assume that the other is a grown man and can take care of themselves. Conversation limits itself to “So, how are you? Good? Good on you then.”
Proximity does not foster a better relationship at all. Both of my parents live in the same town, about an hour away.
My stepfather is one of the greatest people on Earth, but he’s hard of hearing a bit and uses that to compel his telephobia. He’s way better in person anyway.
At least 2 or 3 times a week. I ring them or they ring me. They live about 120km from me.
Female, 27. I live in the same city as my parents, and only moved out of their place 6 months ago (was living at home while I was in university).
I talk to my mother on the phone probably twice per week, but only brief conversations (5 minutes). Lately we’ve also been meeting once per week to go swimming (yah! fitness!).
I don’t talk to my father on the phone, unless he answers when I phone my mother and he passes the phone to her, or she’s not home and we chat for 30 seconds.
I actually go over to their house to visit once every two weeks.