The article explores the author's experience of sharing their iPhone location with their mother, initially as a safety measure during cross-country trips. As travel habits changed, the need to share diminished, yet the mother had developed an expectation of continuous location visibility. The author plays along by turning location sharing back on to alleviate guilt, despite feeling a desire for boundaries in their relationship. This dynamic illustrates the challenges of maintaining independence while also acknowledging parental concerns.
The need I feel to draw this boundary is not about privacy. I don't go anywhere I don't want my mother to know about.
Sharing my location began as a safety measure; at least one person would know where we were in case something happened in the middle of nowhere.
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