Does anyone track their husband’s location?

[Lana20]

Hi everyone I was just wondering if anyone uses a tracking app to check on their husbands? I don’t but all my friends do and they think I’m crazy not to. Is this normal? My husband just tells me where he’s going and calls me but apparently that’s not enough lol.

I think it's insecure, weird and controlling and no I don't do it, but that's my opinion.

No I find it strange that they would fined the need to track, their husbands.

Absolutely not. That's weird.

Beside, he's currently bobbing about in the North Sea somewhere, he'll turn up at some point.

I think it’s bizarre to track an adult in almost all circumstances. If you don’t trust your husband to the extent that you need to track him, you don’t really have much of a relationship do you?

All our family have iPhones and we all have find my phone on. No trust issues,
it’s a useful tool for many situations we’ve used a hundred times.
But that not the same as sitting there monitoring someone’s location whenever they are out.

I have him on find my iPhone. I check when to put dinner on sometimes. He also shares storage when he’s exercising. I trust him completely and if he wasn’t where I expected I’d message him. Today he was in a village half an hour away, having a snack.

Only if he’s on a long bike ride on his own to check he’s ok.

only if he's on his way home to track progress

This. If I found out a partner was tracking me, it would be over. Absolutely not on.

We have each other on Find my Phone on iPhone (means he can ping my phone when I lose it multiple times a day) and we quite often use it for finding each other at big events if we have split up with kids or are driving to collect each other. It was really useful at a big theme park in the Easter holidays!

Nothing to do with trust, just convenience!

No I trust him. If I ever have my doubts I'll get a private detective on the case!

Yes, we have location sharing. I rarely look at it, but it's handy sometimes.

No I don't, he's either at work, the gym, the comic book shop, playing dungeons and dragons or somewhere I can see him. I have no interest in tracking him!

Not day to day, but we both put life360 on when we do a long drive.

We both share our location on our iPhones on findmy : the whole family does. I wouldn’t say I’m “tracking” him but if I want to know when to put dinner on I can see if he’s at the train station or not. Similarly today he could see I was on the bus back from the gym so saved me some lunch.

In both of your examples you could just ring the other person's phone

if you don’t trust him when working abroad then you need to talk to him not track him

No I definitely don't need to track him!

Although a couple of times a week he will send me a Google maps thing when he's on his way back from our son's after school club that tells me what time they'll be home so I can plan for dinner to be ready when they get in.

Of course not. I find it bizarre that people say they trust someone but that they also track them. Utter nonsense - that's the opposite of trusting someone. And as @PinkWabbit said - it's insecure, controlling and weird. If someone insisted on tracking me as a condition of a relationship they would very quickly NOT be in a relationship with me. When did we all turn into spies? My goodness...

We don’t track each other, and I’ve managed to raise kids without tracking them either

But that’s far more annoying and involves both parties having to do something instead of just one! If one person is driving phoning sometimes doesn’t work very well, and if the other person is busy wrangling kids etc the other person can get to their location without having to phone or take any of their attention.

Much more efficient this way!

No, it would be insecure and controlling to do so. I’d love to know if the husbands of your friends know if they’re being tracked and how your friends would react if their husbands started tracking them.

Nah, hes either at home, in the office or out for a run.
The garmin app tells me his run route when he's finished (and visa versa). I'll call him if theres an issue.

I don't see the problem with location tracking, like others have said, its a convenient tool. We have access to eachothers Google accounts so can look at timelines if we need to

My DH, DD and I all track each other sometimes but not because we have any suspicions. I track DD largely to see that she has got where she is going safely on her bike and I track DH to see if he has left work/his mum's yet, generally to get dinner ready at a time we will all be in the house. It's less intrusive than messaging them to ask if they are there/on their way back.

There is complete trust between all three of us but it is very useful and provides piece of mind that everyone is okay. If DH is at the pub and is late home and I see he is still there, I don't worry. I'm not worried generally but it stops it entirely, instantly. If the icon is moving I know he's cycling back from the pub and hasn't had an accident. I do totally trust them both though and am almost never surprised at where they are and they are both very happy to be tracked, as am I. Perhaps we are all really dull not to mind each other knowing where we are!

I don't need to know where my husband is that often that it would be an inconvenience to call him if I did, how often are you going to theme parks?!