re: Sharing location with your spouse

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How many of y’all are like me and just find some inherent weirdness to always sharing location?

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It really depends on how "always sharing" is being defined and for what reason it's happening.

Is "always sharing" defined as the presence of some app on their phones they can use to find the phones if/when they get lost or is it something they mandated one another have so they can constantly see where the other person is? Those are two very different scenarios.

Are they both so busy that it's easier to coordinate by seeing where one another is? I have friends who have multiple kids playing multiple sports while also dealing with parents with health issues. An app where they can see where one another is can be helpful in deciding who should go and pick up Little Suzy from dance class or check on mom/MIL because they aren't answering their phone.

Does one of them suffer from some health issue like narcolepsy, early onset dementia, etc? That's a whole other reason.

My wife's job has her out of town for sometimes up to two or more weeks at a time (usually her shifts are 4 days on/off) with her "commute" being 5.5 hours away (so we maintain our house and an apartment). When she's making that long drive and the weather's bad, I could see using an app like that to check on her progress if I can't get ahold of her.

Just because your life doesn't go in a way that makes such an app and/or behavior more warranted (possibly even necessary) doesn't mean the lives of everyone else is that way.

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Plus it's mainly to keep track of the kids

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you don’t have to let your wife track you because y’all want to track the kids

Mrs. PJ and I never did this. People that dii ok this have trust issues. Plain and simple.

We’ll turn our’s on when one of us is traveling or heading somewhere outside of our norm. And I think we both forget to turn it off (we share on Google Maps). The fiancé has about a 45 minute drive out to BFE to drop off the step kid when it’s time for her to go to her Mom’s and it’s helpful if he runs into an issue doing that. I also had a client try to follow me home from the office a couple years ago and it was helpful then as well (I drove to the police station instead). Or when one of us has to go out of town for
work.

It’s obviously different if you’re doing it to keep constant tabs on your SO or “require” it out of jealousy/concern in relationships.

Maybe it’s a weird random thing that all me and my friends and close family just happen to do but I share my location with a lot of people lol. Like knowing where all my peoples be.

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Tracking is only creepy if the only reason you can think to track is to keep tabs on someone based on insecurity.

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I also wouldn’t want my kids tracking my every move, so it’s not based on insecurity. There is just an inherent ick factor to it for me.

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We keep tabs on each other to ensure we are safe if we are going to be a part for a while or doing something that has an element of danger to it.

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I share my location if I’m going somewhere and there is an element of danger. It just expires after 24 hours.

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Ahh she went with the pet euthanasia line huh. That’s an oldie but goodie

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You want a pic from the freezer in my garage?

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Years ago, when my wife asked to share locations I said hell no. As time has passed I have warmed up to it.

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If my husband wanted me to, I would, and I’d probably get used to it to over time as well.

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right

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We run two businesses together and work together most everyday, and take kids to three different schools, two of which are about 30 miles apart.

So knowing where each other is is rather helpful.