u/Clean_Mango_6898

If you're playing guard dont let people control your bottom leg. If you're passing, control the guard players bottom leg. That is all.

My GF 25F and I 25M have been in a relationship for 1.5 years and I plan to marry her our relationship is incredible and there's one tension we've been dealing with.

I had a great childhood that I'm very grateful for. I would say the family was very close when I was a kid. Since moving out and travelling, alot of my worldviews have changed so my conversations with my parents 56M 56F these days are not very deep, alot about things we've been doing around town, restaurants we've tried, events we've been to. I've tried to talk about things I've changed my mind on and was not met with openness and curiousity.

My parents feel that we're more emotionally distant than ever and they've expressed they want to talk more and see me more. We live 20 minutes from my parents and we currently talk 1-3x/week and see them about every 2 weeks, there are often texts in between calls and visits as well. They certainly have some emotional immaturity and insecurity that I think feels eased by me visiting.

I have 2 jobs and play a sport so I've expressed to them I can't see them as often as they'd like me to and thats ok. There are times i've been overwhelmed by their desire to have constant access to me.

My parents and I have grown in different directions and I've accepted that we likely won't get closer as time goes on. That said I would like to have a relationship with them still.

My girlfriend feels that the frequency of communication with my family is excessive and feels we do not have any privacy and that our life and the lives of my parents are fused. She is frustrated that our conversations with my parents are mostly about things we've done lately. My parents will often ask to "catch up" and we just talk about the events since the last time we talked, even if it was just a day or two ago.

I've tried limiting my calls with my parents to 1x/week and if I do this I've noticed they text more. It feels rude to me to just ignore these.

I'll often go hours before responding or respond the next day. I'm also not sure what I can talk to my parents about besides day to day events since we lack commonground and interests.

Does anyone have any insight or similar experience that they've got past?

TLDR:

Parents call often and want me to visit depsite lack of common ground. Girlfriend feels this is excessive an feels smothered by it.

Good afternoon,

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