<p>8dbordel-
Dd= dear daughter
Ds= dear son
Dh= dear husband</p>
<p>thanks mafool!</p>
<p>Celloguy: "Third kid in college now and calls/emails regularly, often just to talk. Sweet.
It's my MOM that won't call. Or talk when I call. Dad never would and won't now either. They're frail elderly, thousands of miles away, and the two of them live alone. Nobody is checking on them (unlike my kids, who have friends). No IM. No emails. No computer.
I stalk them. I get email alerts when one of them pays a bill or goes to the bank. I scan their phone calls (I get the bill). I call their doctor's secretary to see if they've been there lately. This is really, really creepy."</p>
<p>Something similiar happened with my mom, but in my case it was a bad sign. I remember feeling insulted that she was calling me less and less. Eventually she stopped returning phonecalls. She lived 3000 miles away and was delving more and more deeply into a vascular based dementia from multiple TIA's. It wasn't one big stroke so it was sneaky and slow.</p>
<p>citygirlsmom: "its doesn't have to be more than 5 minutes, but to not call for weeks on end is forgetting the people that cared for you, fed you, drove you everyhwhere, bought you things, took care of you when you were sick and got you to the place where you are...to ignore parents like that is cold and heartless, doesn't matter how "busy" you are"</p>
<p>AMEN!</p>