do you and DH share your locations on your phones?

You think that the app is for me to check whether my dh is having an affair. Nope.

Once again, it he was determined, he would have another phone. As mentioned by @behindthemall it is easy to turn location on and off to conceal an affair even without a second phone.

My mind does not go down the same rabbit holes as you or others on this thread.

Trusting each other to tell the truth & communicate info a partner needs without needing independent evidence to verify 🤷🏼‍♀️

For people who are happy to leave tracking on all the time, you do you. Neither choice tells you anything about a relationship in isolation.

We do, the kids too. Our daughter is almost 20 and has been asked if she’s happy to stay on and she is.

Apparently most kids her age can see where each other are all the time on Snapchat! I’m happy for family to see where I am but definitely wouldn’t about all my SM contacts seeing it too.

If your partner asks you where you are then it should be enough that you tell them and they believe you.

The only reason someone would need to check on a tracker is because they don’t trust their partner enough to tell them the truth if they asked.

You could tell the truth every time but a controlling partner is still going to think you are lying anyway, which is exactly why they love these trackers.

If you need to know where your partner is, just ask them.

If they lie or you don’t believe them, then that means there are issues in the relationship and tracking each other isn’t the answer.

Not with H but do with DD

@BruFord I am 56 so older than you. When I started work, it was fax and pre-email 😱

If the tech is useful, I adopt it. don't think it is the thin end of the wedge re: erosion of privacy because of the consent element. Am I the only one who takes the extra clicks to reject cookies? I do like the personal safety element of location tracking. It may not bring me back alive but I'd hope they'd at least find my body!

@behindthemall you have given reasons why, like your DH being miffed or irritated with you.

Quite telling and sad really.

Nope

You keep telling yourself that. I'm sure your husband can leave his phone at work so you can't see when he's at the local Travelodge with an escort. Or do you have a chip planted directly into his neck too?

We don’t have any trust issues so we don’t mind sharing locations. It works well for us.

My car broke down in the middle of nowhere last week when I was on the way to a meeting. I called my husband and he could see my exact location with a glance at his phone.

I could also track his progress on my phone as he came to me which was reassuring

@blueshoes I just like a bit of privacy in a world where nothing is private anymore!

I think it’s also a generational thing. I’m 50 this year so grew up without cell phones and CCTV. As a child, my best friend and I would go off on our bikes all day in the summer and as long as we were home by 6, no one worried. Same when I was traveling in the 1990’s, you just went and made one phone call home a week.

It’s a different mindset, I suppose.
My DD certainly doesn’t want me tracking her activities at university. 😂

You assume wrong. Make no difference, other than be exceedingly annoying because I am trying to work.

Family of 5. We all share location and love it. None of us have anything to hide from each other, why wouldn’t we. Even my Dad follows me to reassure himself I’m home safe 😍.
Totally depends on your family, relationships and family set up Great for some people and not so for others.🤷🏼‍♀️

Because I’m entitled to privacy and DH isn’t entitled to know where I am at all times.

Because it takes 5 seconds to text ‘will be at the train station for 6:30’ or ‘traffic is crazy, will be closer to 7 now’.

I’ve also never made sure that dinner is ready ‘on time’ for DH.

I agree.

Location tracking is just a useful tool for lots of reasons. But non-trackers seem fixated on checking and being checked up constantly like that is all anybody will do but be glued to the screen if they have the app.

Yes we both do and also have DH mother's location.

All of us have consented and it works well for us. I go walking in remote parts so it's nice to know that if something happened like I twisted my ankle DH could find me. I often use his to see when he will be home when cooking so he doesn't have to phone.

We often use it to avoid each other when walking independently so that our dog doesn't come across the other person and then get upset when we continue separately.

I’ve given many reasons on this thread as to why it’s a useful tool for us, as have others.

Exactly only couples who trust each other share locations with each other.

Wonder what you non-tracking couples are up to 😂

I’ve got bigger relationship issue than location sharing if that’s his issue. But he’s capable of turning it off from his end and so I probably wouldn’t even notice if he did turn it off for his affair meet-ups then back on afterwards.

Sharing locations isn’t stopping either of us cheating, and would only make it marginally more difficult to get away with.

The old adage of if you're not doing anything wrong, why are you bothered.

I'd say if you trust me why are you checking?

If my DH tings and asks where I am...

I tell him where I am!

You clearly have trust issues that your OH would lie.

We don't, we just say where we are!

Quite simple really.

I’m happy to share my own location with DH. I assume he feels the same.

But who is going to say 'Well actually dear, I would prefer you didn't track me constantly, because its quite the inconvenience when I want to meet my mistress'?

No, we don’t track anyone in the family and have no desire to.

We’ve discussed doing it if one of us is on a long car journey perhaps, but that’s it.

Some of DD’s (19) friends are tracked by their parents. As they’re adults, presumably they’ve given their permission. DD hasn’t given hers.

For those who are against sharing the location, are there times where if your partner rang and asked where you were you would lie? And why would you lie? What would be the ramifications of you being in that place?

And if you’d always tell the truth, why does it matter if they can see where you are? As they could always just ring and ask and have the same effect…

You’re going to have your minds blown when you realise DH and I share a credit card and get notifications when the other makes a purchase 😂