How often do you call your mom?

Or if you are a mother how often do your kids call you and how often would you like them to.

I call my mom once a week on a specific day and we talk from anywhere from an hour to 5 hours and she has my complete attention.

I'm feeling a little guilty. Because I'm very introverted and because she was over sheltering I tend to keep her at a bit of a distance. We get along really well now. But she texts me a few times during the week and if I don't respond she sends a text asking if I got the text. If I'm in one of my leave me alone moods it really gets under my skin but I always feel selfish afterwards.

The more I respond the more she texts me. I feel like whatever I give her isn't enough. She's introverted too and likes/needs being alone. (I count texting as an intrusion on my alone time) But I think she thinks I'm not like that with her. Or maybe she is just being a mom and I'm being a selfish or taking her for granted.

I just got home from an exhausting three and a half weeks in the hospital in another state where my dad is gravely ill. I called my mom Wed a week ago to let mom know I am home safely and then called her Sunday evening to chat and she said, I wondered when you would get around to calling me. Too long, apparently. I'm just so tired right now.

With normal circumstances though I try to talk to her at least once a week. She hasn't learned how to text but I wish she would so I could reply at my leisure.

I dunno. Are you her only kid? I am going to miss my son lots when he moves away someday.

Yeah, maybe moms are just moms. I doubt there is a single "normal" contact that appeases them all the same.

I've got two brothers (I'm the youngest) one of them lives next door to them and is up to see the a couple times a day. My parents never socialized so she doesn't have friends to chat with. But her family is huge and she keeps in touch with some of them. She visits with her sister-in-law consistently and both parents stay busy doing yard work and other projects. She started texting me a lot more once she retired.

I call my parents a few times a week. We typically chat for a few minutes or up to an hour. We used to argue a lot when I lived at home, but now we're pretty close and I truly enjoy talking to her. I went from not telling her anything that was going on in my life to telling her almost everything.

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We live in same house so I see her every day. God I wish I could get out; my parents are so toxic. If I didn't live with them I wouldn't ever call them; I have no desire to talk to them.

My Mom and I don't speak on the phone often. When she does call, she isn't sober. We text a little bit but that is frustrating too, as she types gibberish! And then I just don't reply. She also likes to text absolute nonsense, for e.g. "silieo038@@ " at 3 in the morning.

She is moving closer to me in a few months time so I will get to see her a bit more often. So that is good.

Not very often at all actually. The phone works in both directions. Her world revolves around my sister (drug addict with 4 kids) and I get tired of hearing how I'm supposed to be the male figure in the lives of my nieces and nephews so we don't talk too much.

When I'm in one of my moods, not often. But she recently moved in temporarily, so now it's just awkward as I go through my latest episode.

Otherwise when I'm stable and feeling good, it can be as much as everyday.

Wow, once a week?! My mom would be over the moon. We talk every couple months or so. Sometimes I call, sometimes she calls. Every once in awhile, we'll email something back and forth.

But really, we're not close. She was pretty neglectful growing up, and doesn't really get that, so I don't tend to feel close. I also tend to feel worse the more time I spend interacting with her, so I have to keep that to a minimum for my own sanity and health. Email is better. Calls tend to be 20 minutes to an hour.

My whole family is also very disconnected. I love my sister, but only talk to her every other month or so (I'd love to talk more, she doesn't return my calls). I only talk to my dad on birthdays and major holidays, and he never calls me. Last year he moved and changed his phone number, and didn't bother telling me or my sister. He hasn't talked to my brother in probably ~8 years. My sister and brother don't talk. My brother is recovering from addiction and just recently out of jail, so I try to keep up with him to be supportive, but he's terrible about calling me back too, so again, we only talk every couple of months it seems like.

And I don't think my therapist gets why I feel miserable and like I'm all alone in the world. *Sigh*.

I call her and see her once a week. Same with my dad.

When my mom was alive I spoke with her every day. My grown daughter and I talk every day for about 15 minutes. It's an important part of the day for both of us. My son and I tend to email each other or 'see' each other on Fb several times/week...talk on the phone a few times/month.

On average we speak 3 times a week, Sundays are our long talk days and the other two days are less formal just spreading the love so to speak.

Usually Mom tosses Dad the phone and we chat for 10 mins or so.

Mom's been dead for six years so we don't talk by phone anymore. I still talk to her in my head some times though. We were very close. When she was alive we spoke several times a week.

Never!

its complicated

I live with my mom so....every day? I wish it was less. I'm too old to be living at home still. But I'm too unstable to live on my own.

never! it's fantastic.

About twice a week. I'm their only child.

I call her every day or every other day and often we talk for atleast an hour

Everyday. We never had a good or close relationship. She was very abusive. But she is well into her 80's so I know time is precious for her. She has Alzheimers. So sometimes I will unload a bit or vent, she forgets the next day anyways, or even an hour later. She never really listened to me or understood my problems, so this way I get to "pretend" she understands and listens. Doesn't always work, I still often get the same crap, but she has changed personalities sometimes so it freaks me out. She'll be all kind and empathetic. It's like "Who are you, and what have you done with my mom?"

Never! Will never forgive her for the way I was treated.

This wish speak at This Mother

Before my mother passed, we talked almost daily. I was a momma's boy.

I try to call my mom once a week.

I call my mom every day; I love my mom.

You only get one mother in this world.