How often do you hang out with your parents?

[Spinneret]

4 times a week , we live nearby

 

[CdnCarrie]

Maybe once a month. More in the summer at the lake.
More now if needing care - taken to appointments, etc.

 

[MIGrandma]

Wish I could, Dad passed away in January 2008 and Mom passed away in July 2017. Miss them both so much, especially Mom, she was my best friend

 

[E&Cmom]

Mine have both passed away. My mom in 1996 and my dad in 2014.

 

[Stratman50th]

My mom died in 2009 and dad died in Dec 2010. Both from pancreatic cancer. I'd love to go visit, hang out now. Hell, I'd be happy to just pick up the phone and say Hi again.
Cherish your patents gang. There will come a day they'll be gone.

 

[mamamary]

Only my mom is left. She lives a few states away so not very often. Usually the main holidays, her birthday and we go away together for a week every summer.

 

[Uncle Coaster]

Everyday. I’m 49, but we’ve lived in the same house again for nearly seven years and we help each other out.

Dad is the landscaper/gardener, Mom is the Chef/Butler, and I am the IT desk.

 

[Moliphino]

Pretty much every day. I live about 5 miles away, my sister and I usually go over for dinner and stay a couple hours.

Part of this is to visit and help with the senior family dog (he'll be 16 in 11 days).

 

[Ellie008]

We live several states away, but see them 3 to 5 times a year for a week at a time. We saw them more often when we could make it an easy weekend trip.

 

[tvguy]

Wish I could, Dad passed away in January 2008 and Mom passed away in July 2017. Miss them both so much, especially Mom, she was my best friend

Same here.
Lost my dad in May 1967.
Lost my mom in May 2013.

 

[Meriweather]

Lost my parents too.....wish I could hang out with them.
Mom....March 1984
Dad....Dec 1984

 

[nene0182]

My dad and in laws both live far away from us but we try to see them at least once a year. Thankfully they both moved to the same city. My mom passed in 2020

 

[disykat]

My mother is our only parent still living and we moved her near us. I see her multiple times a week, though some of those are just brief check in visits as I drive past her residence since she lives very close.

Prior to her moving here, all our parents lived in the same different state. We made a point to visit them 2 or 3 times a year and sometimes they came to see us. (Thankfully just an 8 hour drive each way.) A few times we met my parents in between for a weekend at the beach. I spent significantly more time there the last five years as they needed help, with me giving up my job as soon as our youngest graduated from college to make it work.

We're still figuring out what it means to be parents of adults. Even though growing up and away and having significant others more important than us was what I WANTED for them, I've found it surprisingly hard. It'll be interesting to see what people say!

 

[luvnwdwgal]

My dad passed in 2016 and my mom in 2017

 

[MrsCobraBubbles]

I try to spend as little time as possible with my mom. But as for my grandma, who raised me for most of my childhood, I relish every moment I get to spend with her and I make an excuse to go to her house and help her with something or other at least once per week. I call her on the phone 2-3 times per week too. We spent more time together before the pandemic and I'm grateful to have her in my life.

My mom has untreated mental illnesses, which I don't blame her for, but she has also been abusive/neglectful toward me my whole life and I DO blame her for that. I feel obligation to her out of a sense of duty to family but I will never again love her or feel any warmth toward her. Some of my earliest memories of her are her telling me she wished I had never been born and that I ruined her life, imagine saying that to a 5 or 6 year old child! It was a common theme of her verbal abuse through my childhood. There was worse abuse that we won't go into here, but I saw a bunch of replies talking about parents that they love and lost and just wanted to clarify why I can never mend things with my mother. Literally the only reason I haven't cut her completely from my life is because I know it would break my grandma's heart. A couple months ago I helped my mother move 40 minutes away from me and I did a dance of joy when I found out that she had closed on the house. So those of you that have or had good parents, consider yourselves blessed.

 

[slo]

Rarely - my parents are not the hang out type - it’s just how they are, which is ok, I respect that.

I talk to my mom 3-5 times a week, we’re together every holiday & birthday, but that’s about it. Her and my Dad enjoy watching DD19 play softball, so they came to all past local games and pretty soon they’ll come with us to some college games, so I’ll hang out with them then

 

[goofyernmost]

My dad passed 27 years ago and my mom 17 years ago so not much since then. However, before that it was usually once a week. In the last year of my Mother's illness I talked with her every night to see how she was doing and visited once or twice a week. My sister lived with her at the time.

 

[RangerPooh]

Daily. My parents moved in with us so that we could assist them financially. In return we got childcare.

Everyday. I’m 49, but we’ve lived in the same house again for nearly seven years and we help each other out.

Dad is the landscaper/gardener, Mom is the Chef/Butler, and I am the IT desk.

Sounds like our house. Mom cleans and gardens. Das moms the lawn and makes the kids breakfast and packs their lunches. DH and I (and teen daughters) are IT support.

 

[LSUmiss]

Wish I could, Dad passed away in January 2008 and Mom passed away in July 2017. Miss them both so much, especially Mom, she was my best friend

Similar here. Dad passed away in Jan 2017. Miss him so much. We were very close. Used to hang out about every week & talked every day. My mom is still alive but that’s a whole other story…the answer to the OP question for my mom is about 2-3 times a year.

 

[CinderEmma94]

I talk to Mom daily.