I go out of my way to avoid them, honestly....it makes me feel bad on some levels....with the whole "honor thy mother and father, thing" but, seriously why? I talk to my dad maybe 1 time a year, if I go home to visit my grandmother. I never talk to my mother and I don't take her calls, she is on my FB but that's only so I can find out if she is ill or dying. Is there any positive that comes from it? Does it outweigh the negative?