Mummy's Call

Sometimes, your mom would give you a call, and before even answering, you'd already know what she wants to talk about.

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I don't know about others, bit in my part of the world, most young adults, especially the ladies usually store mom's number with a beautiful pet name. It could be: sweet mother, lovely mom, my bestie, my heart...

When I was still a fresher at the University, mom calls me like everyday. Most times, I would already know what her words will be even before answering the call. It's always the usual lines.... "How are you my dear... How is studies... Hope you have eaten.... Hope you slept well....". And I always gave her the automatic answer. Sometimes, I'd sense the next question that she would ask me, and would answer it even before she asked and we would laugh at each other.

Up till this moment, whenever I am having a conversation with a person and I get a phone call from mother. I'd briefly answer it and tell her to call me later since i was already talking to someone.

This is because I know my mom very well, she might say that she called just to check on me. A call that shouldn't take more than a minute might get to five or seven minutes. Lol, you know how the conversation between a mother and a daughter always drags on. I wouldn't want the other person to start feeling awkward or disrespected.

There's always alot of things to talk about between a mom and a daughter even though both have just been separated for only a short time.

Unlike young adults, parents don't usually hide their feelings, emotions, plans and fears from thier children. They'd tell all their worries about you, about your father, about your brother, about your kind of job, about the kind of friends that you keep, your health and their own health too.

They just want to keep talking to you even though you are already exhausted after a long day. And you dare not tell Mom that there's nothing to worry about. She'd immediately launch into a barrage of history lessons of how she had in the past brought up some important observations but you ignored her warnings and advise, and your stubbornness led you into serious trouble. You'd end up spending more time listening to her rambles .Lol, Moms are just so amazing .

Strangely, boys don't spend much time discussing with their dad on phone as much as they do with their mothers. In my part of the world, When you see a boy having a long conversation with his dad on phone, then you should know that he had done something wrong, or had refused to take an advice and his father is scolding him at the moment.Lol.

Just yesterday evening, I was viewing my Twitter feeds then I saw something that really caught my attention.. A young man was complaining bitterly in his tweet that his mother-in-law was always calling his wife and the incessant calls have began to annoy

often times when he's having a very interesting discussion with his wife, her mother would suddenly call and this might lead to mother and daughter spending quite sometime together on the phone. According to him, when his wife starts to speak with her mom, she totally forgets about him.

I couldn't help but imagine his wife talking and laughing with her mom while he looks on helplessly and I really felt sorry for him. I quite understood his feelings.

And when she'd finally finished talking with her mom, the conversation that she was having intiially with the husband might lost its taste and become uninteresting.

He had also complained that thid mother-daughter chit- chat also interrupts his sleep at night

There was a time he couldn't take this anymore and this led to a serious confrontation between him and his wife . He vowed to give his mother-in-law a piece of his mind anytime they met.

Its a known fact that alot of women still maintain a very strong bond with their mothers. Some Mother's would still continue to be their daughter's closest companion even after marriage, especially in my parts of the world.

The old lady might probably have missed her daughter so much. I doubt the man ever knew the kind of relationship between his wife and her mother before he married her. Maybe he's the very emotional or very sensitive type. You could call him jealous if you want to.

Of course, I know it's wrong for a mother to be calling her married daughter late in the night when couples should be together, except in times of emergency or danger. I perfectly understand his anger towards that. But he could have advised his wife to instead talk as much as she wanted with her mom during the day when he's at the office. Then when he returns home at night, him and his wife would have their own moments.

So, It's quite unnecessary getting angry at his wife's mom, especially when she's not saying anything to her daughter that might destroy or threaten her marriage. I wonder how he would react if he ever caught his wife in a phone conversation with her lover.

I know some men wouldn't see that as a big deal. There are men out there who see their mother in-law the way they see their own mother and always regard them in an equally nice manner.

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