(28) I’m just curious, as I text my father daily. Sometimes for an hour or so, never thought it was abnormal, my mom and I text a couple times a week even. Thanks in advance!
(28) I’m just curious, as I text my father daily. Sometimes for an hour or so, never thought it was abnormal, my mom and I text a couple times a week even. Thanks in advance!
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Same, I’m 41
I call every Sunday, and text multiple times a week.
Usually I’m just sharing jokes or they’re sharing pictures of my nieces and nephews
Just texted my Mum. She’s been in hospital following chest pains.
My folks (both 84) will text occasionally but it means so much more to them when I visit in person. I really should make the effort to do it more often.
Every day.
They live a few hours away so I send them pictures of their grandaughter multiple times a day.
Never. My parent do not use cell phones.
I email my dad once a week.
My dad and I talk on the phone roughly every other day on my ride home from work. I have a ton of shit going on, and he has health issues etc. So one of us calls the other just to check up. I talk to my mom every other weekend when I take my kids to their house to visit.
I text my mom every day or two (we also have a family text group that we communicate with). My dad passed away 10 years ago and I’d give anything to be able to text him everyday!
I call my stepfather daily to the point my mom gets jealous
Text me mum almost everyday
My father is 78 and isn’t good with technology.
I post this on another subreddit:
I think it applies here as well
I talk to my dad almost every day. Some conversations are brief 5-10 minutes, but if I need to have a long conversation. Then I’m heading over his house to talk to him face to face. My mom died 6 years ago from complications of diabetes. So he’s all I have left plus he just got a pacemaker at 78. And I don’t know how much time he has left.
It does help that we live in walking distance of each other houses. So he’s never too far away!
I regularly see my parents. They live a few miles away. I text my mom more often as my dad isn’t much of a talker.
Edit: also I call my parents a good bit too.
Texting? Rarely. Calling? Even more rare .
Never. talk on the phone couple.times a month.
my dad lives in another state six hours away, i seen him once every 4 years and i feel bad cause he’s by himself. the six hour drive alone is rough.
i really wish there was another way i can see him more often..i don’t wanna have any more regrets then what i have now
I am limited contact with both my parents so very infrequent visits.
Almost daily, they’re divorced but we have a group together with my brother.
We send memes, pictures of my niece, animals that we see in the street or in the wild.
I (m37)really enjoy it. If they don’t talk, I try to be the one reopening the conversation.
My dad just adopted a cat for the first time, and we’re flooded with cat pictures, 10/10.
My mom is in her eighties and doesn’t do texting.
There’s some form of contact more often than once a week, one way or another. We’ve got a family whatsapp group, shared album for photos, I email them mostly for longer things. But we live close to each other so I see them every couple of weeks or more too.
Hardly ever. Mom still “doesn’t get it”. Dad responds weeks later. I have to call
Never. Like, once or twice a year.
Used to be daily with my Mom, but she got weird and nuts a few years ago and started ignoring all her kids. Boomer Things I won’t understand.
I tried for a bit and left it at that. I have endurance like Ernest Shackleton when it comes to these things. She tried halfheartedly again and I tried halfheartedly back, and she disappeared again.
I’ve stopped financing their lives so they’re double pissed at me now.
I can live with it
Not currently speaking to my mother and I text my father every few months.
i call my mom and dad every day since i turned 30. i use to call at least once a week to talk to her and my dad once a week.
If my dad didn’t text me his Amazon prime orders, I don’t think we’d text.
Maybe once a week. My father is dead and mom ignored the first 3 years of my first born child so the door swings both ways. My wife used to call her mother every single day but honestly there was nothing to talk about and her mother never asked anything, only talked about her life…so now they talk via phone maybe twice a week.
I’m in my late 30s, been living in another country for 10 years.. And unless something major happens I don’t text. That said I rarely text in general.
I do make the effort to call once a week but they don’t have a lot going on and I get tired of 2 hour calls where we’re repeating ourselves.
Cut ties with my mother in 2011 when I joined the Army, long history of abuse/addiction. Stopped talking to my father about 6 months ago when I realized he has 0 qualities I can respect.
Once or twice a week. It’s usually just memes tho. Never any calls really. Dad is 60 and lives in another city.
When he was alive, I’d talk to my father at least 5-10 minutes a day in the evening, typically on my way home from work.
Never my parents don’t text lol
Calling maybe every few months. My mom is dead now but I used to talk to her maybe once a month or so
I’m almost 40 and I text my parents every day. The amount of time I don’t have left with them in my and my kid’s life continues to become more apparent every time we see them. Soon enough they won’t be around to text back.
Daily, and we talk every Sunday.
Never. I call a few times a week.
Thanks to my younger sisters, we gave a family group Snapchat thing. Our parents and us 3 siblings. It has been a great way to stay in touch with everyone.
At least once a week.
But I live nearby so I also visit once a week or so.
I don’t keep track. I keep in touch.
Mine are deceased.
I text my mom a bit and call her every Saturday and let my kids talk to her. I wish my dad was still alive to talk to.
I have my mum blocked on every service possible. She’s a manipulative psychological abuser and will always play a victim and turn you into the enemy.
I text my father about daily, meet weekly for a dinner etc.
Not often enough in reality. I go weeks or even months without texting or calling my father. I only send my mother texts on major holidays or for important info.
I have a great relationship with my father, but ever since my stroke, I don’t think about people who aren’t active in my daily life. When we do talk or text, it will be for hours on end sometimes. I don’t speak with my mother anymore as she’s a toxic person in my life. So she only gets the most basic communication from me.
My question is: who initiates these conversations? Every other relationship in my life I practice reciprocity, but with my parents, I feel like the onus is on them. I feel that way even more so now that I’m a parent. But it doesn’t appear they feel that way as they rarely call or text, especially my dad. I probably talk to him every couple of weeks and see him every few months on average. I’ve talked to him about it several times but nothing changes. Curious to hear others’ experiences.
My daughter and I share memes almost everyday. It’s a fun way to stay in touch.
I doubt they’d receive it.
At least once a week
Never. I’ll call if I need to contact them. I don’t call either of them nearly often enough though. Maybe once a month
It varies. My parents only live about 25 miles away. Me and my dad typically play in VR together at least once a week on average. We have a family group text where we’ll celebrate it’s Friday or something like that. I’ll occasionally meet up with my parents for shopping or I always bring my car to my dad’s garage to work on it. He has way more tools, and I don’t really have a garage. So whenever I have an oil change or mod or other maintenance to do, we’ll use that as a fun excuse to hang out a bit. I’ll So we communicate fairly regularly.
My folks hate texting so I try to call at least once a week.
I call my folks almost daily on my way home from work. They’re getting old and have health issues. The way I look at it is there will be a day when all I want to do is hear their voice and that will no longer be possible. So I’m getting it in while I can. No regrets. We text frequently too
Text my dad a few times a week + a call. Text mum throughout the day every day + a call each week
I text my mom when i have something to tell her. Could be twice in a day could be once in a month.
Father doesn’t text, so i call him. Same parameters.
I call them at least once a week. Sometimes more if something is going on. I only see them three or four times a year.
I only really text them if it’s simple info that needs delivered.
I email my pa once every few months. We’ll go back and forth for a couple weeks then give it a rest for a few months, rinse and repeat.
With mother’s day tomorrow, I’m glad my mom’s dead so it isn’t as much of a problem.
Almost never. We talk in the phone every other week or so. I see them once or twice a year.
I text my mother regularly, my father doesn’t do texting
Not much. Maybe on holidays when I’m not with them. I talk to mom on the phone every Sunday. Dad texts me trail cam photos when he gets them from late September through late November. I also text them when I get home after a visit.
Never
I’m way over 30 (I’m 74) and my mother died 44 years ago, and my dad, 45 years ago. So, it’s been a while.