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.

There was a thread a couple of weeks ago ( re worrying about adult children ) and there was a poster up in the middle of the night because her adult child was on a night out at University. You can’t tell me that’s normal or healthy. The only person who is tracked in our family is the dog. ( very squirrelly rescue )

We have a family circle on life 360. Find it useful for picking the kids up from college as they can see one or the other parent is on the way to collect them. It’s easy enough to turn your location off if you want

We all use it. We all signed up when my daughter was a teen, now she’s nearly 22 she’s the one checking our location. My mum is 80 and has moved to our town, she once needed pick up when the bus broke down and it was helpful then. I’m good with it.

Definitely not.

Scary how normalised this clearly now is.

Same here. It has never occurred to me to track my husband or adult children. They would think I had lost my marbles! When my children were younger I just text them and visa versa.

Nope, my children can track our locations as we can them, which I only use if they are taking a little longer then expected to arrive back from somewhere but my husband and I don’t have it set up for each other.
I really don’t need to know where he is all the time and vice versa!

All on 360, maybe look at it once a week for logistics. I use all the time for 12yo son

I find tracking kids weird, let alone adults!

Very rarely. If he's been away and is driving a long distance home then he'll put the tracker on so that I'll have a guesstimate of when he'll be back if I'm cooking a meal. Or if I'm collecting him from the station it's useful to judge timing that.

Only when he’s on the way home and I’m planning our dinner to be ready when he walks in because I’m starving

Oh and he sends it to me on WhatsApp, it’s not something I can just see whenever I want. That’s weird

I agree but would say this about children too. Just because we can track them, doesn’t mean we should. We either trust them to manage increasing levels of independence, and put in safety plans, or we don’t, and keep them close. I think tracking kids is one of the factors in the increasing anxiety and MH of kids.

We (Me, DH and the kids) are all on find my iPhone, however I don’t track him, I’ll check to make sure kids are at school safely and obviously it’ll show DH’s little phone on the map but that’s as far as it goes. Only time I use it to track his phone is if he’s lost it.

No wonder there are so many people suffering from anxiety. Tracking adults so you know when to put dinner on is insane.

Me, DH and 12yo son have Life360 on our phones and we just find it really handy. I go out walking alone alot and like him knowing where I am. He goes out for long runs or cycles. We can see when the other is on their way home from the office or gym. It works for us

Totally agree

How do you make the phone ping? My eldest loosing their phone - how do you make it do this from your phone? Or does he log on a laptop etc. we did that before when we couldn’t find an iPad and it was in the car! But we logged on the laptop.

Find my is SO useful. So much quicker and phoning and stuff when someone is driving or whatever when meeting somewhere. We also use it on days out. Heating up DHs dinner after work too as I know he’s almost home.

My family member deleted hers for about a week and then turned it back on as she got fed up of us ringing her when we were meeting up. It was a pain!

DH and I have each other on FindMy but only so we know when to put the kettle on! We don't track each other

I don’t track him but he is always on the sofa

If you launch the Find My app and go into Devices, you can find all the family linked phones if you scroll down, press on the missing one and there’s a Play Sound option. I shan’t say how many times a week my DH has to navigate there

I'd be really surprised if most of your work phones weren't tracked

No I don't and I never tracked my daughters either. I've had life360 for my son since a boy was stabbed and murdered at the beach last year in our town. He showed me photos recently on Snapchat of a boy from another school his age jumping round with a knife recently and it's put the fear in me. He can be bad with answering his phone or messages. I don't often check it though, just if I call and message and he doesn't answer.

Only when he’s driving home from work so I can see if he’s stuck in traffic and work out when to start dinner 😆

Absolutely not. Never have; never will. We are both competent, independent adults, so neither of us need to track the other. We are also, of course, both entitled to our own personal space. If the OP's friends don't trust their husbands then that's very sad....either that, or the poor husbands are in controlling marriages.

Similar circumstance here. I can’t ring every time to check he’s ok. But instead a quick check to see he’s arrived safely. I remember when I was at uni I had a bit of a dodgy walk from the train station to my flat. My parents would say call when you arrive. I forgot sometimes and then they’d worry. This would have been so helpful back then