re: Anyone else not on speaking terms with a parent?

Mom - I am not a phone person, so we text very frequently and typically have lunch once a week. She aggravates me because she needs to be involved in everything and know what everyone in the family is doing to the point of annoyance, but that's just how she is :)

Dad - My dad, brother and I own a company together and for the past 5 years or so he has been 95% out of it. He has a very old school method of management so we butt heads on how the company should be ran. He has a sense of entitlement and treats people as such, even making remarks when he does come in to people that "you don't know who I am ?!?!". Whenever he calls me, it's only to talk business. He has made several remarks to my wife that are very uncalled for, he cannot control his temper and whenever we're all together something is bound to happen that we all roll our eyes. When we sell the business, which hopefully is soon, I do not think I will talk to him very often. I do everything I can to ensure I am not like him.