AITA for not wanting to share my location with my girlfriend?
My girlfriend (25F) and I (28NB) have been together for four months. I went to a friend‘s birthday party and she asked if she could see my location while I was out so she could make sure I got home ok. I said it was fine, but the next day I turned off location sharing with her. She got really upset and asked me why I turned it off and if I was hiding something and I said “no it just drains my phone battery and also why do you need to know where I am all the time?” and she said it’s a “normal thing” for couples to be always sharing their location and I said “that’s weird and creepy. I don’t want anyone to know where I am all the time.” She’s insisting that it’s a normal thing for couples to do nowadays and that I don’t trust her. I said her insisting that I share my location with her every second of every day means that she doesn’t trust me, even though I’ve literally given her no reason to.
She said she was willing to share her location with me at all times, so why wasn’t I willing to do it with her but like… Why does she need it??? I feel like this behavior is semi-abusive, keeping tabs on someone’s movements all the time just reads as extremely invasive and creepy to me, but she’s truly making it seem like it’s a normal thing people do now…
I feel like I’m entitled to privacy. I’m an adult. I should be able to go wherever the fuck I want and not have to answer to anybody. I don’t wanna have to justify my girlfriend the places I go. if I wanna go to maccas at three in the morning and eat the big Mac in a parking lot, then that’s my goddamn business !!! I shouldn’t have to be explaining that to anybody, I’m a grown ass adult!
I get this being necessary if you’re a parent and it’s for your child, but we are two adults. I feel like I deserve certain freedoms. I have never had a relationship where a romantic partner always wanted me to always share location. My girlfriend is still insisting that since I don’t wanna share my location, I must be up to something or cheating on her, she’s like “if you have nothing to hide what’s the big deal??”. I just want privacy. I don’t like the idea of someone always watching me. It turned into a huge fight. So am I really the asshole here? Is this really normal nowadays???