“My grown-up children never call me”

What could be going on

Erikson's psychosocial stages: An ordinary cause: young adults are absorbed in work and families of their own.

Emotional cutoff: Check whether distance follows unresolved conflict rather than busyness.

Bids for connection: Check how you respond when they do reach out; small bids shape how often they come.

Uses guilt to get compliance: Check whether calls tend to start with complaints about not calling, which can deter them.

Midlife transition: Could be your own reappraisal of life now the children have gone.

Also said as

• my kids only ring on my birthday
• adult children who don't keep in touch
• I always have to call my son first
• why don't my children want to talk to me
• my adult kids never phone
• my children don't contact me