STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

Once a day, and now that we live in the same city, we try to see each other once a week too.

Whenever one of us goes out of town, we go through serious withdrawal too! I don't know what I would do without her!

I talk to her every day. We live like two seconds apart, and I pass my parents' house between work and home, so a couple nights a week I stop to eat dinner with them (since I live alone). I talk to her at least every day, if only to tell her that I am or am not coming to dinner. When we lived in different cities, I talked to her probably 2 out of every 3 days. But sometimes multiple times a day.

Can I make an addendum to this post? I'm wondering how often everyone talks to their dads, too? My dad is not big on phone talking AT ALL, so when we lived in different cities I probably talked to him like once every two weeks, and then only for about 5 minutes. Now, I talk to him every day just because we work at the same place.

I talk to my mom about once a week and we see each other about once every two months probably. We live about 3 hours apart.

I never talk to my dad really, we email occasionally but he's living in Hong Kong now so we're kinda on different schedules.

I talk to my mom several times a week (email almost daily) and we have a standing date to talk on the phone every sunday. We live about 4 hrs apart. I'm pretty close with my mom as well. I also extremely close with my dad and we talk every sunday as well, but generally once or twice throughout the week.

Well, I thought my answer was "a lot" but compared to some who have already posted, it isn't. She lives only 15 minutes away, but in L.A. standards that can be prohibitive.

When we talk on the phone, it can be a marathon - 45 minutes and up - but we go through phases where we talk once a week or once every ten days, and then not at all for three weeks. I tend to call her more than vice-versa when I haven't heard from her in a while.

But I'm busy, and she's busy, and summers she tends to go on a lot of short midweek trips since her BF works weekends a lot. So sometimes I don't even know that she's been out of town twice since I talked to her last. We send short newsy emails but that's about it electronically.

Sometimes I avoid calling her because she's needy and the conversations are very one-sided, with her talking about herself and me saying "mm-hmm...yeah...that's crazy...you said that to her?..." and so on. My favorite was when I called her to tell her we'd set a wedding date. I barely got the news out and she immediately launched right into what happened to HER that day. (!) If I point out this behavior, she gets snitty and says, "oh, I'm sorry, I thought we were having a conversation, I didn't realize it was just about you talking and me listening."

Oh, and I haven't talked to my dad in ten years or so, and only two or three times over the last, what, 15 years maybe? I clipped him out of my life for good reason. He and my brother have a relationship still so if I need to know something he tells me.

probably 1x/week or 1x/every other week.  a lot of it is b/c of the 5 hour time zone difference (i'm in Minnesota and she's in Hawaii) so that hinders our ability to "connect" @ the right times.  plus she just retired a few months ago and is really enjoying her free time, so catching her isn't always easy.

I talk to my mom about 3 times a week, and I visit my parents about 2x a month.

I talk to my dad probably 2 times a week.

And, I talk to my sistewr (my only sibling) about 2 times a week too.

We are all pretty close, so it's not too much for me. When I was in college, I dodged their phone calls as much as possible. :(

-gd

not nearly enough. Maybe once a month? A little more? We're both really busy and our schedules don't mesh well... I have really young siblings and she's always carting them off to practices and classes and whatnot. Unfortunately she doesn't do email at all either.

During the week, probably every day or every other day. We don't usually talk during the weekends unless something special is going on. So I'd say 3-5 times a week. We email every once in awhile but it's usually about scheduling family bdays or passing on an interesting news article, etc.

I used to only talk to her when I had to (when I was in college and law school). I'm not completely open with her about my whole life - she's very nosy - but she knows pretty much everything that's going on with me. I get very jealous if she's out shopping without me. It seems unnatural.

I talk to my dad about once a week. Sometimes we have marathon conversations if he's in the mood and if I have time but mainly we communicate through my mom (tell him I said blah blah blah, tell her I said blah blah blah). My dad and I are pretty close but he's not a telephone kind of guy. When we visit each other we have gargantuan talks about the world. He's smart about stuff like that. : )