Sharing your location?!

I share my location with my husband, my FIL , my mom , and my best friend. Why? Because I’m comfortable with it and so are they.
“Should you” is a…. Loaded question. It should be a personal preference or boundary I think.

I say yes, my reasons were cos my partner travels an hour to & from work and if anything happened to him and say he didn’t answer his phone I could at least locate him.
However he didn’t agree and said that was silly and that it sounds like I want to keep tabs so we don’t share location with each other 🙄

I share it with my husband, my mom, my sister and my best friend. For security reasons mainly…

I don’t currently but I have no issue in doing so

We share our location. It started bc he is a tow truck driver which is one of the most dangerous professions there is. I also share it with my mom, dad sister, cousin I’m close with. For safety reasons. If you’re not comfortable with it, don’t do it.

Yes for both partners. It’s smart for safety and gives peace of mind.

My husband and I share our locations with each other. My 16 year old brother and I share our locations too, pretty sure my parents still have my location as well lol. It’s just nice to have. The biggest part for us is just safety. Especially since my husband drives on I-35 everyday and there’s a lot of accidents on that road. It’s nice to be able to see if he’s still moving on the road🤷🏼‍♀️

Me and my partner share our location so that we can see where the children are (more so for my peace of mind, he’s not so fussed but has never had any issue with sharing). I like to have the reassurance that I can quickly know where they are incase i can’t reach him or any accident might happen etc. It’s also come in handy to see how far away one another are, if we’ve left work etc.
We also have a family location share with my mum, step dad and siblings. We all get notified when someone returns home etc, everyone quite likes being able to check and know where everyone is and that they’re safe

Yes I share mine with my kids and my partner. Obviously I want to see where my teens are always and I wasn’t bothered about sharing my location with my partner as he has bad anxiety due to his dad going out to see a friend, stopping on the side of the road on his motorbike to take photos of an air show when a plane came down and killed him and 10 other people. So he has a fear I will go out one day and something will happen to me

Husband and best friend, yes. My best friend had it to keep an eye on her teenage children as they started going out if there were any problems, especially on their motorbikes.

With me and my husband, its actually because he is Irish. He moved over here and job a with a company doing driveways, fencing and patios for people. He wasnt driving then so I had to go get him but because he had just moved over he had no idea where he was. He would tell me the name of a town but there's like 100,000 houses plus in it. We put the tracker on so that I was able to find him wherever he was on a job. He has since got a car and now driving himself but he did still like it whilst I was pregnant and off out and about as it brought a sense of comfort to him. We mainly use it now so that we know when one is on their way home and when to put on the kettle and dinner.

We’ve always had eachothers locations since we first started seeing eachother, sometimes now check to see if he’s nearly home especially if my 2 year old is asking where’s daddy. We did it when we first got together because we lived 1 hour apart so we knew how long we’d be or in case of an emergency if either crashed we were always sharing it for like an hour on WhatsApp for the journey anyway, so just changed it to all the time.
Now we have 2 kids and I feel like it is just safety, I feel way more secure when I’m out without him that if anything happened he could check my location and find us. On the rare occasion I’ve been out in the evening & got a taxi too I feel SO much safer having my location shared & it also means he doesn’t worry as much.
Sometimes he works away & it can be late nights, it puts my mind at rest that nothing bad has happened to him knowing I can see it if I need to. I get why people don’t want to, but we definitely feel safer!

We share with my best friend because of our wedding. We got married in Ireland and I needed to collect them from the next town to take them to my venue. I knew my phone half worked but the venue had WiFi and we knew her phone would half work. It happened that we used the same app so we added each other so I could watch her coming in and be able to find her to take them back to the venue - she was my maid of honour so a fairly important role. We've kept each other on it ever since and has since turned into a bit of a game where we guess where each other is going and what we are doing there. It is handy as if I need to drop stuff off or she wants a cup of tea we just look to see if the other one is in. We are the sisters that each other should have had!

‘Should you’ is a weird way of putting it. Me and my husband don’t share locations, I don’t see the need to. But if others prefer to or have more of a need to then fair enough as long as everyone is ok with it. I do think it’s unhealthy when it’s used as some sort of spying tool.

All your responses really relate to how I feel but I just don’t know to how touch that conversation with him without him getting so defensive about it any help ? Or just any help with being ok with my new normal? Bc yes ik we’re all entitled to our own privacy I used to have a thing with phone passwords but then gave that a rest bc I realized well he’s right that is the only thing that he has private

Yes. I share mine with a lot of people 😅

OP I think it’s odd he all of a sudden is stopping 🤔

Yea I do. I don’t have anything to hide . I don’t mind him knowing where I’m at, and I like to know where he is just incase of emergency and it helps with reassurance as well. I don’t have to worry about anything.

My husband & I share our location with each other. We have our kids locations. It’s a matter of not only safety but just in case, like a lost phone or something of that nature. Not at all due to mistrust.

My whole family has my location and I have theirs, but I don’t have my man’s and he doesn’t have mine because he thinks it’s doing too much 🤷🏾‍♀️ so instead I just text him all the time asking what he’s doing 😂 one day he’ll get tired of it and get on the locator app, lmao.

Yes. We share for safety reasons.

I grew up in an era where that wasn't a thing and wasn't even a possibility lol so I don't even think about it but I've heard that people do! My oldest son does with his gf..think it's a younger generation thing 🤣

We have been sharing since dating. He use to travel alot for work. We still have now that we are married. We use Life360 app.

we do hahah we both know at all times where we are (it's also been like this since we were not engaged and married yett too)