How do YOU show you care?

bylromarha

For those friends and family living in UK, how do you show them you still value them and their love?

What do you practically do to show them love? Just wondering thoughts wider than OH and I.

Thanks

AnnieO1234

In long distance terms or more local?

On a more local basis, it's little things like maybe bringing flowers or giving a hand with DIY etc I guess, as well as up to daily calls just to check in. For longer distance then making time for Skype, letters, photos, making time however short and possible to see them. I don't think it has to be anything more, it doesn't need big showy displays xxx

whitewing

With MIL, we text. It's just little things about what granddaughter and I and her son are doing. Nothing special but it keeps her included and it just makes it easy to be in contact. If anything needs a phonecall then my husband usually does that.

pigpen

I don't.. I can go months without seeing my family members who live in the next street (mother, stepdad, sisters) .. I rarely see any of my family tbh.. but if I needed them they would come and I would go to them if needed. If it weren't for facebook I would probably have zero contact with any of them.. and I have recently removed 4 siblings and my stepmother off my account and never had the male 'parent' on anyway. if they want me, they know where I live!

OHs family live in another city.. they exchange facebook messages and thats about it.. the odd phonecall thrown in.. send birthday cards etc..

psychopathbabble

I don't really speak to a lot of my family but DH speaks to his Gran every morning on his way to work (she is 93 so it's a lovely thing) and speaks to his family A LOT by phone and facetime. This doesn't bother me a lot unless we are out for the day, or on holiday, as I feel like it's 'our' time and it's not for his family but that's another conversation. I probably text his mum weekly and his sister every couple of weeks.. this will increase as both his sister and I are pregnant and no doubt I'll send his mum a lot of photos when the baby is here!