How often do you speak to your mum?

[Beach Mama]

Most days if not every day, if more than a day or 2 goes by she thinks we have fallen in a big black hole and has to call! Some conversations go.. how are you .. good, how is dad.. good, how are the kids.. great... ok cool well love you, love you too..bye Awesome!

[The[cookie]Doctor]

We speak pretty much every day but she is my employer too and we are a management team so no avoiding it

Before this we talked maybe once every 4-7 days. There were probably periods where it was close to two weeks ??

My DH speaks to his mum once a week or fortnight, generally only calls her because DD brings a phone asking for Nanny.

[Phteven]

Surely other people with a good relationship with their mum don't speak everyday

I'm sure there are. Talking every day might mean a relationship is very strong but on the flip side it could mean that it was co-dependant and toxic.
There's no right amount to talk. If a person's mother is a nasty cow who is mean and hurtful then every 6 months might be too often.

[lisaandshaun]

Very bad relationship with my mum. Not spoken in over 18 mths. She lives 90mins drive away and hasn't bothered to ring about her new grandson.

[KittyK]

We talk Nearly every day. We don't go longer than say 3 days without seeing each other either love my mum, hope my daughter loves me like I love my mum

[feeb]

Every day to every 2 days. Even if just a quick hi. If I don't ring or here from her often sms her or send her pic of kids.

[Amity]

My mother used to ring me to talk at me about five times a day. She has absolutely no understanding of who I am or what I do or what I need from her. She now rings about once a day. It's still too much. I'd prefer her to call once a week. That way she'd have half a chance of me calling her sometimes.

Mind you, this is the woman who deliberately, in my face, undermines my parenting of my children. Knowingly.

If she wasn't married to my Dad, I'd probably have little (if anything) to do with her. Very sad, but true.

[briggsy's girl]

Most days. Not necessarily talking but at least a few texts. She is lonely (dad sleeps all day works all night) not the healthiest person so I touch base randomly during the day. She takes dd swimming once a week and has her a full day another day. She has dinner with us at least once a week. She can be painful but she is mum. Heart is in the right place so I zone out her annoying bits.

If I could only speak to her with dad as well it would be once every month or so. Bad relationship there

[PumpkinZulu]

Anywhere from 2-7 days a week. I send her pics of the girls every couple of days and we talk in the phone probably twice a week, as well as conversations through email and text, and we see her pretty much every weekend.

[~Kim~]

I have a great relationship with my mum. Sadly she lives a looong way away and her and Dad are moving further.
We both have great phone plans so I ring her whenever I feel like it, but she doesn't really feel comfortable talking on the phone. So at usually once a week, sometimes more, sometimes less, depending on how busy each of us is.

[Astrolady]

When we had a proper phone line, it would just about be daily. You could set your watch to the time Mum would ring me or vice versa. More so when my step-dad used to work lol. Now that we have VOIP not so often cause sometimes the line is ****. But we will speak daily via facebook chat, or leave each other messages for the other to reply to next time they're on.

[Hetty]

I have a bad relationship with my mother. I last talked to her about three years ago.

My dad though, I talk to every few days and go see most weekends. He gets a bit upset if I don't go see him.

[Beautiful Disaster]

Only in my dreams as she passed away last April

[chody47]

Gosh I feel bad reading this. I talk to my MIL as much as most of you speak to your Mum - generally at least once a day. I'm lucky to talk to my Mum once every 2-3 weeks for about 20-30mins. We don't have a very close relationship. I really hope my relationship with my kids is like the one I have with my MIL. I often wonder why I'm so close to her and not my own Mum. I guess we are more similar personalities and have similar interests? I also think our whole relationship has been based on a mutual respect. I don't feel like its been like that with my own Mum.

[Tinks]

Most days.

[~Trish~]

Once or twice a week. I'd love to speak with her more, but we're both so busy! I love her to bits

[Miss.B]

Every day

[MummyNaomi]

Probably every 2nd day, but send sms's almost daily too. Mum is our caregiver for our kids on Fridays but while I have been on maternity leave we've all spent fridays together which has been lovely as previously with both of us working I really missed that Mum/Daughter time, I am going to miss it again when I return to work in a few weeks.

Mum's one of my best friends, she is so supportive of DH and I, and is just perfect with the kids, she upholds our parenting style and is so easy going, knows when to back off or speak up, very intuitive. We are taking her on holidays with us in November for a week - DH actually suggested it as they get along so well.

I know I'm super lucky to have such a great Mum. We've had our moments though, when I was younger I certainly didn't appreciate and respect her like I do know. I think becoming a Mum makes you realise how much your own Mum loves you.