Boyfriend wants to use location sharing: Red Flag?

Anonymous
Is it weird that my bf wants me to share my location? He offered to do it for me, too. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with it.
Anonymous
I would find it weird.
Anonymous
I feel like this is the kind of thing I’d be willing to do with a husband but not a boyfriend.
Anonymous
I really wouldn't care one way or the other, unless there were other red flags.
Anonymous
My now husband asked me to do this once when we were dating - when I was heading out to drive by myself three states away during a blizzard. That was reasonable.

If this is a boyfriend you've had for a year or less, aren't sure if you want to marry him, just say "Nah, I'm not comfortable with that" breezily and see what his response is. That will tell you a lot.
Anonymous
If you’re not comfortable with it, don’t do it. Listen to your gut.
Anonymous
Why?
Anonymous
I'd ask him why he wanted to know.

A couple i am friends with have done it since they were dating. I love them dearly but I would find it odd.
Anonymous
Gosh no.
Anonymous
Why would anyone ask to know? No reason other than suspicious, true? I mean unless the person's a child, a frail elderly person ..
Anonymous
Was there something that precipitated the request? He couldn’t find you at fireworks and you weren’t answering the phone? You were late to dinner and he was wondering when you would get there? My spouse and I share location for practical reasons, so I’m not opposed. With a boyfriend I would wonder why he brought it up.
Anonymous
How long have you been together?
Anonymous
Yes, always a red flag
Anonymous
It would depend on a lot more details, including if he had any personal negative experiences, like a person close to him being kidnapped where it would have helped, but at face value this is a big red flag.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I feel like this is the kind of thing I’d be willing to do with a husband but not a boyfriend.




I've been married for 23 years and neither dh nor I keeps tabs on the other this way.
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