Danish broadcaster TV 2 describes a couple who have shared their location around the clock for two years. What began after a worried night — a boyfriend asleep at work, unreachable after a Friday bar — is now everyday infrastructure: they check Find My iPhone to time dinner for each other’s commute, not to check up. A couples therapist calls location sharing ‘a very powerful tool’ and urges a clear conversation about why it is needed, warning that it often rides on jealousy and insecurity.
What is interesting is the normalisation. A surveillance feature is being absorbed into ordinary intimacy as care and convenience — and the therapist expects it to spread, as a generation raised on tracking friends via Snapchat brings the habit into love. Her caution cuts deep: it is hedging applied to a relationship, ‘a tool we use to control something that cannot be controlled.’
So…: Where is the line between care and surveillance in what you offer?
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