afraid so... I hesitate to ring my DS for the exact same reason and I don't want to put his partner in the embarrassing position of either explaining or fibbing so I tend now not to ring unless I have a specific reason. My son just doesn't 'get it' his lovely partner always says just ring its no problem but she knows exactly what I mean.
Thing that really 'gets my goat' is he's straight on the phone if he 'needs' me to do something for him..
I still love him to bits I just put it down to him being a 'man'.
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Big time difference between me and ds.
We normally email and sometimes Facetime.
We hadn't actually talked on phone for a few weeks so I phoned mobile with no reply so phoned land line. On land line DIL says x will be back in a half hour.
Two hours later I phoned mobile again with no reply and phoned landline again. DIL answered and passed phone to ds. DS asked was there something wrong... no there wasn't - just wanting a chat.
Ds said I only need to ring once and he'll get back, he will see that I have phoned .... that if he is busy he doesn't answer calls - and if bombarded like wot I did gets irked. (this was the weekend and said lots of things to get done). Says I always do this when I don't get a reply.
We went on to have a nice enough chat I purposely brought the conversation to a pleasant close.
However, inside I was pretty hurt.
Has forgotten about the student days , lifts here, lifts there, and me often getting up out of bed at 2am or 3am to do a pick up on the other side of the city !!
Did I bombard ?
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