What if your spouse suggested GPS tracking?

[Gemma1]

My husband and I have trackers on our phones. We use the Life360 app. We don't do it because we don't trust each other or are worried about cheating. We do it because it's comforting to know the other isn't dead in a ditch somewhere. We both rarely check it but I've also sometimes used it to see how far from home he is so that I know how much time I have to get ready if we are going out somewhere. Or seeing where I left my phone if I lost it. Or seeing where I was earlier in the day or how long I was at a certain place. It's come in handy to know that info a few times.

 

I've never checked it because I was suspicious. I know they can be duped, and if he wants to cheat he's going to cheat. I think I should know where my husband is most of the time anyway, so a GPS doesn't seem like an invasion of privacy to me. Others may feel differently.

[basil67]

We put GPS on my disabled son's phone so that if he gets lost or stranded we have a better chance of finding him. We put it on all our phones so that we could test the app out.

 

The verdict was that it was really handy: When hubby is on his way home from guitar lessons, I know what time to put the kettle on. For us, it's not essential. Nobody would be coerced into using the app. As it so happens, hubby now has a Windows phone which isn't compatible anyway. But it can be useful.

 

And to the poster who said it drains the phone battery - we've found Find My Friends to be easy on battery life. Some of the others are horrid.

[Clockwork]

My wife and I trust each other and have no reason to put each other on an electrical dog leash. Look, I say this because I have nothing to fear. When you have nothing to fear you have no need to check up on someone. If you have something to fear you probably think a GPS tracker is a good idea. Think about that.

[road]

False, people who are willing to cheat are risk takers, liars, and ignore the consequences. GPS can easily be duped. For example, BF at home claiming to be sick. OW comes over to bang BF while GF is a work. BF out at pub with friends, gets buddy to lie and buddy holds onto phone, while BF meets up at OW's flat that is a block away to bang. BF claims to be at work in a meeting all day, leaves phone there for the day, goes and meets OW, has lunch, goes to her place to bang. I can go on and on. Thinking GPS is a deterant is a fruitless venture.

 

 

Most people I know are free to pick up a phone anytime at work. And there are other ways to gather intel without tipping ones hand. Such as GPS the car.

[smackie9]

They can take a cab....

[smackie9]

I don't need to track where my husband is and I'm never worried at all, what is the damn point to feel that way??? I don't need to stress myself over something stupid like that for nothing. If he is in an accident, or in trouble, that's what the police are for or his boss will notify me. I doubt very highly he will ever be kidnapped. lol!

[Rejected Rosebud]

Actually utterly false. Sometimes people cheat only because they feel they will not get caught. So nope, you can't say it will always happen regardless. If they know they are being closely watched then a person might not.

 

If the only reason my guy is not cheating on me is that I am closely watching him - then my relationship sucks completely and it's doomed.

[almond]

GPS tracking each other 24/7, in an attempt to prevent infidelity?

 

F that.

 

I'd rather be cheated on than live my life like that.

[William]

Thanks for the comments folks. This appears to be a drive-by, probably a researcher using LoveShack for free research. We don't buy into that program so I'll close this up.