I only ever call my parents in regards to my safe return home if I'm traveling home after visiting them. I keep in touch with them enough otherwise that when we take longer trips on our own they don't worry too much. It's only if I don't check in with one of them for a couple of days that they start to worry--but that rarely, if ever, happens, and only seems to happen when I'm not traveling anywhere. They have a great deal of confidence in me as a traveler (and well they should--we traveled extensively as a family) and so they know I can take care of myself.
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If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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