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lostinrates

tesuhoha wrote: »

I do feel guilty for causing all this fuss!

Don't worry. Far better here than with your daughter

I just got in and came to check she was home and safe. I'm glad you feel better and all is well and those of us saying it was alright were thankfully not proven wrong!


Have a lovely time with her over the weekend.

pinkduvetdiva

Glad to hear that you've heard from your daughter. My mum still worries about me, and I'm almost 36! Like someone said earlier, you were only worried because you care, and there's nothing wrong with that.
On a more pressing note, since nobody is claiming the Key Lime pie, can you deliver to Pinkduvetdiva Towers please? :rotfl:

Mojisola

pinkduvetdiva wrote: »

Glad to hear that you've heard from your daughter. My mum still worries about me, and I'm almost 36! Like someone said earlier, you were only worried because you care, and there's nothing wrong with that.

At some point, you'll find the person doing the worrying shifts to the younger generation and the sons/daughters have panic attacks while rushing to check on the parents when the phone isn't being answered.

Nikky2003

tesuhoha wrote: »

I do feel guilty for causing all this fuss!

Our daughter is 15 and I'm sure as she grows up I will be just the same. Glad she is safe :j x

nearlyrich

My two are both out there in the wide world but DS comes to stay, when he is out but staying here I can't drop off to sleep until he comes in. I don't worry about him when he is not here and we don't speak everyday but if it's been a few days I might send a text or call him.
Glad you DD is home safe and well OP us Mum's never stop worrying do we?

troubleinparadise

It's quite normal to worry when the usual communication doesn't happen!

When my (now adult) children went AWOL, I used to try to reassure myself that I'd hear from the police or hospital pretty quickly, and of course their phones list Mum, Dad, Home etc so we're easily tracked down....

Now that they live away, I find that usually no news is good news - I get more calls when they are troubled than happy!

But glad you are able to stop worrying now

paulineb_2

Im almost 45 and my mum still worries about me and my brother. Hes a personal trainer and I was in the gym a few weeks ago and he was lifting weights and his pal came up to me and said, what have you been feeding him and I asked how heavy the weight was and he said 100kgs

I texted my mum to tell her Id seen him in the gym and he was lifting a monster sized weight and she texted me back saying, he cant lift that!!!!!! He'll hurt himself. Hes 34. I said to her, how do you think he got those muscles, not by lifting 2 kilos.

I couldnt stop laughing. I know my mum worries about me if my phone is off for any length of time or I take ages to answer a text and I worry about her the same way, not panic stations but I would if I couldnt get her.

One night her phone was on silent and Id tried to get her about 3 or 4 times over the evening and she wasnt answering and I was ready to go up to hers, which I rarely do, as shes two miles away, we dont drive and tend to meet in the middle. I didnt, but if Id had my panic head on I would have.

I just reminded myself that she sometimes goes to bed ridiculously early and Id speak to her in the morning.

*max*

I'm very glad she's safe, and you've stopped worrying. I'm worryingly similar, only with my mum! She's always worried about me, but never showed it, always let me do my own thing and never let me know she was worried. Now it's my bloody turn!

This christmas, mum and step dad took the ferry to England the night of the big storms to spend the Christmas holidays in London (they live in France, they're French). Let me tell you, I didn't sleep a wink. I had asked mum to text me at each step - getting to the harbour, getting on board, arriving in england... and she didn't text all night. Her phone was off.

I spent the night worrying, looking at Brittany Ferries Twitter feed, refreshing the page every 5 minutes.

It's a little neurotic, but...!!!!!! it, I don't care! As it turns out, they arrived safely, they had the best time in London and enjoyed every minute of it. Did I tell her I was worried? Nope. I told her I was glad they had a great holiday. And I am! But...wow...rollercoaster. I think having older parents living abroad is pretty much equivalent to having teenagers!

tesuhoha

Thanks for all the kind messages. Bit of an update. It got to 11.30 and I started worrying a bit again so texted her - are you still coming home tonight? She replied that she was on her way to Stratford to get the fast train. When she got there she texted that there was only one last train to Ebbsfleet which is a 20 min drive along the motorway from us. I told her to just get on it and I would pick her up from there, so at 12.30 I went to get her and then picked my son up on the way back. We got in at 1.10 and have just had a cup of tea and a chat. She like the key lime pie! I'm off to bed now once she comes out of the bathroom.

hazyjo

Glad she's home safe and sound. My mum's like pollyanna's and is basically a 2nd mum to my sis's kids. Usually round there at least once a day, sometimes 4!

Also with Pauline's post. Mum didn't answer her home phone one night and me and my sis almost started panicking. Can't remember if sis went round there or if mum finally picked up. Oh and we're both in our 40s and I'm very independent. I only probably see mum every couple of weeks but I ring her every day.

We're a close family. How much effort does it take to chat to my one and only mum who won't be here forever. We worry about her far more since my dad died nearly 18 months ago. I always say if I'm out the next night and won't be ringing. She won't panic if I don't ring as life does sometimes get in the way or there's an impromptu night out but we never go 3 days without talking.

Jx