Is "sharing location" on cell phones a thing for those in a relationship?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would never: I am divorced in my 40s. I made my boyfriend at 23 return a cell phone for my birthday. I did not want to be accessible to anyone 24/7. Of course, now we are not where I am going is my privacy. No one is tracking me 24/7. No way in hell.

I’m one of the pp’s above who has device location sharing turned on with my husband. It’s not like we “track” each other 24/7. Honestly I think we both forget that it’s even enabled most of the time. But every once in a while, I’ll see if he’s left the office so I don’t need to bug him / text him about whether he’s left yet. The main use case for us is for travel, especially since we don’t need to be glued at the hip. I might spend an afternoon shopping in a town while he goes snorkeling, but it’s nice to know I could find him in an emergency. We don’t track and zero trust issues.

That is weird. Why do you need to know if he has left the office? People did not used to have cell phones. They were better off.

DP, but my husband leaves the office at a Different time every day, I like to know when to start dinner.

Our family uses an app, we check on the kids as needed and really dinner is the only time I pay attention to where my husband is.

I do talk to the kids about dating/friendships and sharing location on Snapchat. I do not think that should be a normal part of teen/young adult relationships.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would never: I am divorced in my 40s. I made my boyfriend at 23 return a cell phone for my birthday. I did not want to be accessible to anyone 24/7. Of course, now we are not where I am going is my privacy. No one is tracking me 24/7. No way in hell.

I’m one of the pp’s above who has device location sharing turned on with my husband. It’s not like we “track” each other 24/7. Honestly I think we both forget that it’s even enabled most of the time. But every once in a while, I’ll see if he’s left the office so I don’t need to bug him / text him about whether he’s left yet. The main use case for us is for travel, especially since we don’t need to be glued at the hip. I might spend an afternoon shopping in a town while he goes snorkeling, but it’s nice to know I could find him in an emergency. We don’t track and zero trust issues.

That is weird. Why do you need to know if he has left the office? People did not used to have cell phones. They were better off.

When I am deciding whether or not to start bedtime myself or wait for my husband so we can tag team it, it is really helpful. With three kids under 6, I will wait the extra few minutes to start if I know he is five minutes away. I don’t want him texting while driving, so location sharing is a better way to stay in touch.

[Anonymous]

She’s not asking if you track your husband’s commute. The answer is, it’s not normal in a dating relationship

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would never: I am divorced in my 40s. I made my boyfriend at 23 return a cell phone for my birthday. I did not want to be accessible to anyone 24/7. Of course, now we are not where I am going is my privacy. No one is tracking me 24/7. No way in hell.

I’m one of the pp’s above who has device location sharing turned on with my husband. It’s not like we “track” each other 24/7. Honestly I think we both forget that it’s even enabled most of the time. But every once in a while, I’ll see if he’s left the office so I don’t need to bug him / text him about whether he’s left yet. The main use case for us is for travel, especially since we don’t need to be glued at the hip. I might spend an afternoon shopping in a town while he goes snorkeling, but it’s nice to know I could find him in an emergency. We don’t track and zero trust issues.

That is weird. Why do you need to know if he has left the office? People did not used to have cell phones. They were better off.

When I am deciding whether or not to start bedtime myself or wait for my husband so we can tag team it, it is really helpful. With three kids under 6, I will wait the extra few minutes to start if I know he is five minutes away. I don’t want him texting while driving, so location sharing is a better way to stay in touch.

You must be in your 30s. I think this is nuts. Bedtime routine starts whether he is home or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would never: I am divorced in my 40s. I made my boyfriend at 23 return a cell phone for my birthday. I did not want to be accessible to anyone 24/7. Of course, now we are not where I am going is my privacy. No one is tracking me 24/7. No way in hell.

I’m one of the pp’s above who has device location sharing turned on with my husband. It’s not like we “track” each other 24/7. Honestly I think we both forget that it’s even enabled most of the time. But every once in a while, I’ll see if he’s left the office so I don’t need to bug him / text him about whether he’s left yet. The main use case for us is for travel, especially since we don’t need to be glued at the hip. I might spend an afternoon shopping in a town while he goes snorkeling, but it’s nice to know I could find him in an emergency. We don’t track and zero trust issues.

That is weird. Why do you need to know if he has left the office? People did not used to have cell phones. They were better off.

DP, but my husband leaves the office at a Different time every day, I like to know when to start dinner.

Our family uses an app, we check on the kids as needed and really dinner is the only time I pay attention to where my husband is.

I do talk to the kids about dating/friendships and sharing location on Snapchat. I do not think that should be a normal part of teen/young adult relationships.

You check on your kids, too? I am sorry but to me, none of this is normal: not in dating, no in marriage, not with kids. No news is good news. No one should be able to check on people at all times. It is a complete lack of freedom and privacy. No one can’t wait (whether that is minutes or hours) for someone to show up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would never: I am divorced in my 40s. I made my boyfriend at 23 return a cell phone for my birthday. I did not want to be accessible to anyone 24/7. Of course, now we are not where I am going is my privacy. No one is tracking me 24/7. No way in hell.

I’m one of the pp’s above who has device location sharing turned on with my husband. It’s not like we “track” each other 24/7. Honestly I think we both forget that it’s even enabled most of the time. But every once in a while, I’ll see if he’s left the office so I don’t need to bug him / text him about whether he’s left yet. The main use case for us is for travel, especially since we don’t need to be glued at the hip. I might spend an afternoon shopping in a town while he goes snorkeling, but it’s nice to know I could find him in an emergency. We don’t track and zero trust issues.

That is weird. Why do you need to know if he has left the office? People did not used to have cell phones. They were better off.

When I am deciding whether or not to start bedtime myself or wait for my husband so we can tag team it, it is really helpful. With three kids under 6, I will wait the extra few minutes to start if I know he is five minutes away. I don’t want him texting while driving, so location sharing is a better way to stay in touch.

You must be in your 30s. I think this is nuts. Bedtime routine starts whether he is home or not.

I am 46. Go ahead and make fun of me now for being an old mom. I do not need your permission to wait for my husband to start bedtime so I can nurse my baby in peace.

[Anonymous]

Dating. Weird.

Marriage. Not weird.

I have nothing to hide and could careless

[Anonymous]

We use the WhatsApp location sharing when it is convenient, then turn it off the rest of the time (there's a 1 hour option that we use often). I usually share my location on long runs and long walks for safety, if we're meeting up somewhere, running errands and unable to answer the phone easily, and he shares it on his way home from work so I can see his timing, if he's coming to pick me up somewhere, that sort of thing.

[Anonymous]

I'd feel uncomfortable sharing my location w a significant other bc it seems kind of controlling/too much. That being said, I do share my location with my brother and two best friends. I feel comfortable w this bc I know they won't "abuse" it and we have no trust issues. It's partly for safety/logistics and sometimes bc it's fun or easier to check than ask the person where they are. My brother also travels a lot so it's easy to check and see where he is.

[Anonymous]

It seems invasive. I don’t track my husband’s location and he doesn’t have mine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dating. Weird.

Marriage. Not weird.

I have nothing to hide and could careless

Still weird in a marriage. It’s not an issue of “having something to hide.”

[Anonymous]

Mid-40s, married 17 years and no way. This is super creepy.

If I were divorced and dating again, it would be a deal breaker if my new partner wanted to track my movements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dating. Weird.

Marriage. Not weird.

I have nothing to hide and could careless

Most younger people (than you, I assume) are no longer getting married. They are in long-term relationships.

So it's either weird, or not weird, and you post adds nothing to this conversation here.

[Anonymous]

12 years married, use “find my iPhone”. As others have said, purely for logistics and mostly related to when the other person is in the car and shouldn’t reply to a text.

My top two uses:
- where in the commute is my spouse so I can time dinner
- I forgot an item on my list, are they still at the grocery store

In a newer relationship? Super weird.

[Anonymous]

Marriage yes, relationship NO.

My husband has an alert on me (I had to approve it). I don't go out much but when I do I go for hours and sometimes don't answer the phone if I cannot hear it ring. So, it says when I leave the house, come home. We have tracking on all the phones. We rarely use it but its nice to have.