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Metric · Gucci

RE: How often do you talk to your mother?

Kitty · Hermes

I am having a hard time answering. There are some weeks where I talk to her almost every day, and then weeks where I don't talk to her at all. I guess on average it's like once a week.

Elle · Hermes

Maybe once a month? Less if there isn't a birthday/holiday that necessitates contact. But things aren't good between us right now - even when they were 'good', we talked once a week at most, during my Sunday 'good daughter' call.

jacL · Coach

I am very close with my mother, but we only talk about three times a month. I also see her about once a month.

ladysi78250 · Dooney & Bourke

I live with my parents still. So I talk to both of them everyday. I know its a blessing, and I value it even more after reading some of the other girls post. aww

atlgirl · Gucci

Not as much as my mom would like, I know that. We e-mail more often but even that I don't do frequently enough for her. My parents are retired and I don't think Mom has enough to do - though God knows she has a busy enough schedule. We live about 2000 miles away. She's gotten really tight with money, though they live quite comfortably, and won't call from home - only calls me on her cell when she's out and has free long distance (my folks live in an area where they have no cell service at home).

She is really good about picking up when I call her, but I know she'd like to talk more often. But I'm extremely busy and I don't always have some exciting news to tell her. Plus she tends to reiterate the novels that she e-mails to me...mom likes to tell a story, but sometimes it's not really interesting to people who aren't retired, ya know?

I love her a lot and I know she feels a loss with not having us kids around - my bro is in another state and his wife is...I won't even go there, but trust me, my brother won't ever have the kind of relationship with my parents that he might want because of her. And he just lets his wife come between him & my folks. So now the burden of communicating more falls to me...and sometimes that's just frustrating.

dangergirl · Kate Spade

I'm living at home at the moment, but when I was away at uni I would call them once a week and possibly 2-3 times a week if something had happened that I wanted to talk about

Cortney1982 · Chanel

Mostly only when I visit her which is maybe 4 times a year. I don't like talking on the phone and we don't e-mail. We live a 4 hour drive apart so I have to take a minimum of two unpaid days of work to go visit.

luckylily · Gucci

Wow, it's so awesome that so many of you have good relationships w/ your Moms and enjoy talking to them so much.

I usually make one call a week to my parents and talk to both of them. Talking to my Mom is hard for me. She'll go on and on about her week and what she did, then say "Okay, I love you, bye." She NEVER asks me how I am or what's going on with me. I like talking to my Dad much better. We talk a lot about sports, music, world events, etc. To me it's a much more pleasant conversation.

emery · BCBG

I talk to my mom bout 4x a week, but I don't talk to my dad, stepmom, or stepdad on the phone often at all (maybe like 6x a year or so)

Kenneth Cole

At least once a day, usually around 3 times EVERYDAY

KaffeeKlatsch · Marc Jacobs

As infrequently as possible. My parents and I do not even come close to have a functional relationship.

TheLovelyLady71 · Hermes

I talk to my EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. LOL Even tho' Joe and I live on the outskirts of Austin, she's either at our house w/my niece, or I'm at hers. She's my Mama and best friend, she knows me like no other (duh). She supports my every decision, be it good or bad, so yup. I have to talk to her every day, I just don't like it when she calls me WHILE I'm at work... Sometimes Mom can get long-winded, and I'm like, 'Mom, let me call you when I get off work'..... LOL

zeitgeist4 · Gucci

Every day.

Misty · Dooney & Bourke

Lilykind, I'm sorry about your relationship with your mom but I'm very glad you have a good one with your dad. A good friend once told me that as much as we want to, we can't change people or make them love or care about us the way we want to or think they should. I'm 31 yo and I still struggle with this but I have grown more accepting with age. :)

I have gone through periods where I didn't talk to my mom for months at a time because she disagreed with my life choices (leaving my husband bec he treated me like i was beneath him but he "was a good provider and could give me whatever i want"). That time, we didn't talk for 5-6 months. Currently, I talk to my mom her about 2-3 times a month. She doesn't know much about what goes on in my life and doesn't listen for the answer when she asks how things are going; she's too busy with her own life. My dad and I talk a few times a year. My stepmom is a toxic person though she pretends not to be; she doesn't tell my dad when I call. I miss my dad and wish we had more contact.

My FH, friends and my DD are my family and all I need and that's good enough for me.