LizardNoyce Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 I'm currently living in Wisconsin with my boyfriend. My parents, brother and sister decided to move to Florida in March 2011, and I decided to stay here because I didn't want to leave my boyfriend and I had been moving my whole life. I visited there 3 times, all about 6 months apart. But with plane tickets being so expensive, and I working 3 jobs to support myself made it near impossible. Fast forward to now, my brother is in jail in Florida, my sister had a baby and moved to North Carolina with her boyfriend, and my parents are retiring in Michigan. I had never dreamed I'd see my entire family spread across the country like this and I really miss them. I hope to get to Michigan sometime in the next couple years when I get done with school. My question is, how do I keep in touch with everybody when I only see my parents every 4-6 months and my sister and brother close to never? I try to talk to my mom on Facebook and I text her, but she just never seems interested in talking to me. Talking goes both ways and I'm starting to feel I should let her come to me. I don't really talk to my dad ever but he's a quiet guy that likes to keep to himself. I hope my family can meet up again one day soon but as of right now it doesn't seem likely Link to post Share on other sites
Fugu Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 I would confront your mother about communication - I say this as someone's who's pretty bad about staying in contact myself, so I have the same social disease as your mother. I think you should confront her, because the tendency is to assume that no news means no problem. But, there's a problem; it's just that she hasn't been told about it yet. You don't have to make this a negative confrontation. Just mention it. "I wish you would text or contact me more. I feel that (fill in the blank). I'm not angry, I'm not saying you're wrong, but this is how I feel" Link to post Share on other sites
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