When I lived in the same town, we’d talk a couple of times a week and see each other at least once every two weeks, often more. I haven’t seen them since I officially moved to Saint Louis, 500+ miles away from them, last August. We usually talk on the phone about once a week when they call me. If it were up to me, it would be far less frequent because I’d only call when there was News, not to just chat. As it is, my dad will test me occassionally by not calling to see how long it will take for me to call them. I’ll let it go two weeks sometimes but I know he’ll get upset if I let it go much longer than that. So I’ll try to call when I expect they’re not home so I can leave a message and not have to chat. That’s pretty much the same pattern of interaction established when I moved away to college, then to Lake Jackson, the Atlanta metro area and D/FW.
I call my mother usually every week plus whenever something is going on. My father I talk to a couple or three times a year. He lives with my brother and is out a lot and he spends weekends at his (okay, this sounds a bit strange considering the fact he’s 75) girlfriend’s house.
I call about once a week, go visit three times a year.
I talk to my mom, probably every couple of months and see her maybe twice a year. I talk to my dad about the same but only see him one a year. But, I actually have a conversation with my dad and talk about things so those phone calls run an hour or so while my mom’s calls usually last five minutes.
My mom is about 500 km away - we RARELY talk on the phone - like maybe once every 6 months or so - but we email pretty much every day.
My dad & his wife live about 80 km away - he calls probably every 2-3 weeks - but I rarely answer because he annoys me and we never have much to say to each other anyway …
Every Sunday. Usually around 4pm.
Me? Call them? I don’t think I’ve ever done that. If I need something I send an e-mail. Wait, I did call Mom once, but it was for something which I didn’t want to put off–it was Friday night and I knew they likely wouldn’t get an e-mail until Monday morning.
They call me once in a while though. Usually when a break is coming up or something is going on to figure out what I’m doing, how I’m getting home, if I’m coming home, etc. We’ll also catch up on life during those calls.
I don’t know where my dad is.
Well, I do, but he doesn’t have cell phone access.
He sends regular e-mails of his adventures as an RV workkamper (they’re at a campsite near Yosemite this year), but I’ve been unable to speak to him by phone for about two weeks.
Ivylad talks to his mom once or twice a week, which is torture for him. Ivylad is not much of a phone chatter. We’ll call to exchange information, but we never call each other just because we’re bored. But my dear MIL will call and talk for about 45 minutes and when I ask Ivylad what’s up with his mom, he will say, “Absolutely nothing.”
Don’t get me wrong, we both adore her, but that woman can chat about anything! Once, I was driving her back to her house and she felt the need to read aloud the speed limit signs as we drove by. 
Never. If I want to see either one, I’d need a shovel. :eek:
I call my sister every other Sunday; surviving aunt and uncles monthly; my Dad’s widow every 2-3 months, and my 98 year-old grandmother who lives in a nursing home and has no phone, gets a letter in very large type every other month.
When Mom was alive, I called weekly, and my Dad, monthly.
Mine are divorced.
I speak with my Dad more often - about once a month or so. He is actually interested in seeing me and my family and going out for breakfast and having us over occasionally.
I speak with my Mom once every three months or so, picking up around holidays just to see what time - if any - we should come over to wherever things are going on. We moved from NY back to PA over a year ago and she’s never even come over to our house, so I’m not really interested in being anything but cordial (I was in NY for almost four years and I think she visited twice, but it may have only been once).
College student. Mom and dad are footing a large chunk of the bill, so I try to call three times a week. Usually, I manage to chat with them at least once a week - the two-hour time difference and chaotic schedules all around make it a little bit harder. I at least say ‘hey, how’s it going, etc’ on AIM every other day.
Holy crap, I guess I’m further from the mean than I thought.
I talk to my father irregularly; usually, when he bothers to return phone calls. Maybe 6-10 times a year, conversations consisting of alternatively lecturing me on some inane topic and cajoling me to apologize to his wife for transgressions unknown and apparently inexplicable.
I’ve spoken to my mother 3 times in the last 15 years. The less said about that the better.
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Ditto.
It’s a duty more than a pleasure. However, I call my aunts more often, and I am much closer to them. That’s more of a pleasure.
About once a week. Visits once a month, though those might be more infrequent now that I’m farther from them (and they’re scared of cities).
I talk to my parents about once a week on average, frequency increasing whenever my Mom can’t figure something out on the computer. I visit a few times a year, and they do the same. They live about 400 miles away.
I live about an hour from my mother and stepfather. We exchange email with some regularity, and I had dinner with them last week. My father, now: I haven’t spoken to him in (counts on fingers) almost fifteen years.
Tell her the cat will survive for weeks on her flesh.
I call Mom every weekend.
I IM with Mom whenever I forget to log in invisible, we talk on the phone usually once a week, more if something’s going on.
They retired and moved 250 miles away a few years ago, but I see them now more than I ever did. I inherited parental hosting duty last fall, my older sisters had shared the hosting gig previously and now it’s my turn. It’s at least a 2-3 day visit, since turning around to drive right back is silly. Since then it’s been them here for H’ween, everyone up there for Thanksgiving, them here for Christmas, again for a funeral in January, a birthday in January, a birthday/funeral twofer visit in Febuary, then I had minor surgery so Mom came and stayed three and a half weeks into March, Easter, and yet another birthday.
Mom called the other day to ask when we’re coming up again. :smack:
Another outlier here, I talk to my folks maybe just maybe once a month by phone. we see each other once every two years or so. I talk to my siblings even less. No animosity, well at least not at the surface. We just aren’t that into each other!
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My mother typically calls me once a week, on Sunday morning. I’m trying to get her used to the idea that I may or may not be home on Sunday, but it’s tough - because it’s not that I don’t like talking to her, I just don’t feel this urgent need to talk every week. Tha call also usually includes a few minutes chatting with my dad, and maybe my older brother if he happens to be there (his house is maybe 10 minutes down the road from theirs).
But the reason I’m trying to back her off from the weekly call a little is that she can freak - a couple of times I’ve not been home and she’s made the comment (sounding serious) that she was thinking about calling the police for the town I live in. At least now I’ve got the cell phone so she can try that before she completely freaks.