re: Anybody always share their phone location with SO?

I have a lot less issue with location sharing than I do with some of the posts in this thread listed as excuses as to why they do it.

Hell, the best excuses so far are the person who is recovering alcoholic wanting to be held accountable and squirrel with health issues. Otherwise, it is very strange that y'alls spouses were calling you "15 times a day" or assuming you wrecked and dead at 3pm on a workday because you didn't answer immediately.

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Otherwise, it is very strange that y'alls spouses were calling you "15 times a day" or assuming you wrecked and dead at 3pm on a workday because you didn't answer immediately.

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You overlooked my main reason: I don’t want to talk to her

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I’m older than you and I’ll outlive you

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Not if you were checking in with your mommy in the 90s

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just regular Apple location thing. All three of us have it, and if my wife is bored enough to track me who cares.

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It actually helps to avoid texting as much (had some off and on car troubles at one point and along with bad weather just made it easier & safer than texting back & forth if ok instead of focusing on actual driving especially late at night) and/or when one of us coming home and other wants something to eat and can see what's around without distracting driver to see what's around while driving. It's also helped when I couldn't remember which school location to pick my kid up from the 2 years it differed based on whether an A or B school day.

If someone wanted to hide where they were they could easily change device used to share location (and maybe change device name if access to locations of multiple devices), just turn phone off and say battery ran out or whatever, or just turn off sharing or location and just need excuse if it happened to be checked by other during that time.

For families It's a safety as well as just a convenience thing at times more than a spy thing unless one of the spouses or the kids don't know it's on. If someone is relying on location sharing like Find My Phone the other person knows about they are going to be easily fooled if spouse is up to something.

I was married in 94, toting the Motorola sack phone....checking in with my wife every 10 minutes was the rule.

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If you have a wife that gets mad at you for stopping at a rest top, then you have bigger problems than phone location.

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If you have a wife that calls you 15 times a day then you have bigger problems than a phone location

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was married in 94, toting the Motorola sack phone....

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I had a Motorola bag phone in ‘91 as a sophomore in high school, just because I could

I remember my mom having a car phone in the early days and it's was like $1.35/minute.

I got my first cell phone after college but I did have a beeper.

My wife set my phone up for that. I don’t really care. Just let’s her know what golf hole I’m on or what point I’m fishing on the lake.

I don’t have the time or effort to chase another woman. If that makes her happy then go for it.