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For asking my husband to stop sharing his live location with his sister?

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louisewellsx37 · 27/01/2025 15:50

I recently moved to my husbands country and it is very common to share locations with friends family. I admit I thought this was/is strange too... but he has 5-6 of his friends and his sisters so wasn't a big deal. We have each others and its actually pretty handy knowing when he is on his way home from work (for dinner purposes), seeing if he is working late, or for him to see if im safe walking the dogs in the forest alone etc etc. so all in all kinda handy. problem is, his sister occasionally comments on his location eg recently we took a roadtrip and it was snowing, and she decides to text him "where the hell are you going in the snow?" and i saw his reply weeks later kind of mocking me saying "she has decided to go on a roadtrip", she being me, and her saying "haha good luck".... I find this utterly disrespectful but that is in the past and has been spoken about (to both of them). This sister often crosses boundaries and admits she hourly checks everyones locations.

problem is, after her comments on where we are at, and winding up my husband for no good reason, i find uncomfortable. even yesterday we were due to go to dinner at a family members house but changed our mind, and she has his location so we can't even say we got held up at work etc. I just find it an invasion of privacy, but was happy to keep quiet and go along with it until she started making her comments on the places we travel too...

AIBU? she recently deleted my husbands location (GREAT!!) because he had it turned off for a few days because he was fed up with it all, and because he turned it off she deleted him (as if to say well i will delete you then, if you don't share it!) - anywho, what annoyed me more was he added her back after a few days. I asked him why when he knew that i did not want her having it, he said he doesnt see the issue, why do i care, and makes out i am starting an argument and says he can have his familys location if he wants too.

AIBU?

OP posts:
Winterskyfall · 27/01/2025 16:12

Surely this is an issue between the two of them? If you want to lie to the family that's not a reason for him to not share his location of that's what he wants to do.

JustAskingThisQ · 27/01/2025 16:10

It's surely up to him.

louisewellsx37 · 27/01/2025 16:08

Miaowzabella · 27/01/2025 16:06

This sister often crosses boundaries and admits she hourly checks everyones locations.

WTF? Has the woman literally nothing else to do?

well clearly not, that's why i feel uncomfortable about her constantly monitoring my husbands location, and most of the time i am with him so mine too. we want to start IVF soon, is she going to know each time we are at the hospital? I don't feel comfortable with it at all...

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Miaowzabella · 27/01/2025 16:06

This sister often crosses boundaries and admits she hourly checks everyones locations.

WTF? Has the woman literally nothing else to do?

Pippa12 · 27/01/2025 15:57

It sounds like your husband wants to share his location with his sister or he wouldn’t have added her back? I’d just leave them to it? Just make sure he doesn’t tell white lies to relatives he’s supposed to be going to dinner with!