Redditor Refuses To Share Her Live Location With Her Mother-In-Law Despite Her Husband Pressuring Her To

"She has never had my location before and I don’t particularly want her to have it now"

Maryjane

• Published in Interesting
• March 19, 2023

Some couples divulge everything, including their closest friends' secrets and toothbrushes. So why is it hard to share their location, though? If you do, then it is a brand-new degree of closeness.

Sharing where you are is generally referred to as "location sharing." This phrase has begun to refer to location-sharing apps in recent times specifically.

You can use these apps to use real-time maps to locate your family members. Yes, it can locate where you are using the internet.

To guarantee your spouse arrives at work securely, you might want a location-sharing app. Or perhaps you need one to make sure your child doesn't stay up past their bedtime.

Now more than ever, third parties can easily find out where we are (and, potentially, what we're doing) thanks to smartphones, which monitor your every move, including your location. And occasionally, our spouses, significant others, and partners are those third persons.

But is it good to let them know where you are at all times? For the OP in today's story, sharing a location was a big deal.

And guess who wanted the OP to share their location at all times? The mother-in-law. According to the OP, they said she needs to know where the OP is to make sure she's safe.

They have argued about it a few times, and it’s just rubbing the OP the wrong way. Read the entire story for yourself below. 

The headline...

The OP's family doesn't even have her location

The OP also mentioned the MIL has never had her location before

The OP added more information in the comments and here are some of them below

Your MIL doesn't have to treat you like a child

You didn't need her as a child

She obviously can't do anything to protect the OP

Your partner should listen to you

This is just overstepping basic common decency boundaries

It sounds like the OP does share her location with friends

It's none of her business having her location

You can't always get what you want

Time to tell her to kind her own business

She's going to use to be checking on you

Seems like mother-in-law has got time on her hands

Your husband needs to get on board with your decision

It's weird your husband is agreeing with her

If you're paranoid, then that's a you problem

They should not be arguing their mother's case

The OP just wants to avoid her concerns

This Redditor's parents tried this a few times

It doesn't matter to not share it

You have a right to privacy

Regardless, sharing location for families has a lot of advantages. The OP and the partner are adults, and they do not need MIL to carry out any sort of protection.

Redditors were not sure how MIL having the OP's phone location could really be "protecting" them anyways. The OP was declared "not the AH" at the end of it all.

Maryjane