do you and DH share your locations on your phones?

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just curious really. DH and I have never done this, and I wondered if that is the norm?

Never heard of this snd wouldn't do it - no need to

We do as we have life 360 for when the kids started playing out/walking home.

I rarely check it.

How is everyone doing this? Through Find my Phone?

Yes, we can see when the other is on the way home and know when to put the food or kettle on for when we come through the door.
I also do long walks or day cycle rides in quiet areas and DH can check in now and again to see where I am on my route.

Haha yeah, too busy stalking my husband and making his dinner 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Some people need to buy new kettles. Mine boils in the time it takes to take your shoes off and wander into the kitchen....,

No.

I would hate to be tracked.

Yeah, it's handy when he's heading home from work and I need to meet him at the main road so I can get the car to go to work myself. I know if he's hit traffic and if I'm going to make work on time. Also he does a hobby where it's safer if he can be tracked as it involves being in the middle of nowhere up in the hills. Definitely no mistrust reasons. If I ever saw him at an address I'd more likely think, "Aw sweet, he's made a friend!"

Our DD shared her location for one weekend when she was 18 at her insistence when she went to a festival with friends. Apart from that I have never tracked my children or my husband. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should. I don’t agree with it but I can accept a parent you want to see where your child is but once they’re adults their wishes should be respected if they don’t want tracking.
I don’t buy the rationale to track your spouse or partner so you know when to put the dinner on. Surely they can send a text or call to say they’re on their way. I wonder how many people abuse the apps by effectively stalking their significant others.

We are all on find my iPhone (me, DP + 3 teens). My eldest has other friends locations and her iPhone as reciprocal for nights out.

It's useful to understand where everyone's at (making dinner, teens out at parties, getting off the tram and needing a lift etc).

It's not something that we've ever thought about.
If we did have it, it would look like I'm mostly at home because half of the time I forget to take it with me when I go out somewhere anyway.

No. It's creepy and controlling.

It wouldn't cross my mind to share as an adult.

Fair enough to check kids location. It means i can relax as I know my teen hasn't missed his bus to school!

Not our phones but our car has GPS so we can track where the car is on the app.

Well I'm single and will have no one to know or care if I fall down a ravine or lose consciousness. But I have been married and have teenage children and consider it a terrible invasion of privacy which I would never agree to or want for my children. I think people need more not less time where they do their own thing, the dynamic described by some on here sounds suffocating and weirdly retrograde. I love my freedom to be where not a single person knows where I am and I want my children to have that top.

@Monkeybutt1 yes I love the fact that tea being on the table is sooooo important!!

It's just not, do you think they'll die if starvation if they've got to wait 30 mins.

What about if they leave work and the normal journey is 45 mins and you've started "tea" and fuck me, 30 mins into thief journey they're delayed because an accident has happened in front of them...

What happens then?

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No, apart from when he is on a night out with work or something and is coming home late at night or vice versa we will share WhatsApp location while we are on the journey home.

Yes, it's really handy and saves lots of texts, calls etc. We mainly use it for knowing when to start dinner if the other one is out walking the dog. Or when he was meeting me in a european city recently and the metro was delayed. No hassle if no-one has anything to hide.

What happens? Same as what happens in your house. What drama were you hoping for?

Using the app to have tea (I presume this means dinner) on time is as exciting as buying more toilet paper before it runs out.

No, we never have done. These days he is almost always with me or at work.

This is what I don’t understand!

People are saying they don’t keep checking the app but then say they use it so they can have dinner ready for when their DH returns.

They must need to regularly check it so they can time it just right.
So many people stay a bit later at work or stop off at a shop or for a drink etc.
So how would they know what time to have dinner ready for, unless they’re regularly checking the app.

These men either finish around the same time everyday - in which case the dinner can be made for the same time every day, unless told otherwise.
Or these men finish different times everyday (or do something on the way home) and so these posters must regularly check the app, which they’re claiming they don’t do.

Surely it’s easier for their DH to text them saying they are leaving and will be home around X time, than have their DWs need to keep checking the app.

If heaven forbid the poor man is stuck in traffic, then his doting wife can just reheat it for him when he finally gets home.

It’s more work to keep checking on the tracker, than it is to just receive a text.

No. I tell him where I am if I’m out when he gets home or I’m at work/walking the dogs. I’d find it a bit odd to have Find my Friends etc.

No, I would find it weird and controlling.
I don't need being tracked.
Just like I don't feel the need to track him either.

We do, first of all for the kids but actually it is really useful. My 18 year old has decided to stay on it with us.

No. I phone/message him if I need to know where he is. He does the same. Ex tracked me and was controlling in every way.