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Jizzo T. Clown · Joined: 27 Mar 2006 Location: at my wit's end

My parents start getting anxious if I go more than a week without calling them, so we have a routine where I call them every Sunday. The only thing is, we never spoke that much when I was back home, so we don't usually have a lot to talk about.

I suggested that I only call once a month since the "call quality" would be better. I'm not sure it's even normal to call home so often anyway...is it?

CGriswald309B · Joined: 23 Jan 2006 Location: Busan, SK

I call my mom about once every two weeks...sometimes 3 or 4.

I call my grandmother and sister about once every 6-7.

Bondgirl · Joined: 26 May 2007 Location: in my Aston Martin

I love my folks to death and email frequently, but I only call them about once a month. They have only called me once in all the years I have been away from home, and that is because I growled via email at them on Christmas.
I would find it very weird to talk to my family more often. My other sister only calls about once every 6 months.
I agree with you, Jizzo. Your folks will cope.

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

I went a whole year without calling home. I figure email is just so much handier, as I can't think of a polite way to say 'I might call home more often if you didn't ask so many bloody stupid questions'. As soon as I got home last month on the ride back from the airport a whole year's worth of stupid questions starting spilling out.

'Oh you have a credit card in Korea? What do you use to pay for things?'

'What do you use in Canada? Both cash and credit cards? Well duh, that's what most people do in Korea, too'.

I think part of the problem is that everyone back home finds Korea so uninteresting that they can only think of pointless conversation topics re: your personal life.

shaunew · Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Location: Calgary

Once a week for me. My dad would phone me on the weekend. But now my son was born this week he has phoned me everyday. Just the same questions with the same answers. But if it makes my parents fell better I don't mind.

jay-shi · Joined: 09 May 2004 Location: On tour

Every Sunday evening, I get along well with my folks and enjoy talking to them.

faster · Joined: 03 Sep 2006

Every few months, maximum, since 1990.

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

Almost never...it is so strange when I call, I think they'd think an emergency happened.

Usually I just email a couple times a month.

tzechuk · Joined: 20 Dec 2004

I talk to my sister daily on MSN messenger.

My folks once a week.

neandergirl · Joined: 23 Jun 2005

Email my Dad about once/twice a week on average. Get a package every month or so. Email my sisters and their kids for birthdays and such. Haven't actually spoken to any of them since the last trip home (2005); hadn't spoken to them more than a dozen times in the 5 years before that and not more than 4 times a year the four years before that. We're all real close but have always lived by the 'no news is good news' creed plus everyone is so busy we'd never get anyone home.

SuperFly · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Location: In the doghouse

I call my mom once a week.

MissSeoul · Joined: 25 Oct 2006 Location: Somewhere in America

ryanbonner · Joined: 23 Aug 2006 Location: Seoul

i like to drunk-dial my dad on the weekends. he's entertained, but i forget every thing that was said the next morning. so i'm not sure if that even counts.

bluelake · Joined: 01 Dec 2005

I talk to my folks on Skype every morning. I enjoy talking with them. They are 82 y.o., so I like to spend as much time with them as possible.

Paji eh Wong · Joined: 03 Jun 2003

I don't enjoy phone conversations and it shows.

Every 2 weeks or so. Sometimes longer.