Is It Healthy For Couples To Share Their Location? Here's What Therapists Say

Therapists reveal whether location-sharing helps or hurts a relationship.

It’s one of the polarizing relationship questions of the digital age: Should you share your location data with your partner?

Some folks view this choice as an invasion of privacy, while others see it as a useful safety precaution or logistical tool.

A recent viral conversation on X, formerly known as Twitter, about location-sharing in romantic relationships gives a sample of this debate. In an Oct. 27 tweet, user @DelaKram75 wrote:

I think location sharing between spouses is weird. It’s too much. I have no desire to monitor where my husband is all day and he has no desire to monitor me. He thinks it’s weird, too. I don’t want to have to make sure someone is behaving themselves. If someone wants to cheat or whatever else then that’s on them. I trust Adam and he trusts me. Even if we didn’t trust each other I don’t want to have to keep tabs on someone to keep them straight. I realize a lot of people claim to use tracking for safety issues but it’s still too invasive for me to ever consider doing that. If we want to know where the other is at then we call or text.

In the replies, some folks cosigned her point of view. Others responded with their personal reasons for sharing their locations with their partner, many of which are practical in nature.