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I talk to my mom every day, sometimes more than once. We both live alone and very close by to each other, and are pretty close emotionally too. I'm an only child so it figures.
With a SO, I can go for 3-4 days without talking much, especially if they are away somewhere. After that I miss them too much and it becomes a problem.
With friends, I can go for weeks, sometimes months. This happens mainly because several of my closest friends live abroad, so though we email often, sometimes actual talking is a lot further apart. I have learned to live with this.
I'm a bit of a loner and when my life is less busy, sometimes I can go for days without talking to anyone, except maybe my mom who will call to check up on me. I go a bit mad when that happens.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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