Being able to trust your partner is one of those things that seems like it should be common sense and yet, for many couples, is a luxury. Normally, the best course of action is some honest and open communication, but a few individuals turn to spy craft.

A woman wondered if she was overreacting when she found out that her husband was using an Air Tag to secretly track her car. When confronted, he insisted it was to help recover the car if it was stolen, which she didn’t buy. We reached out to the woman via private message and will update the article when she gets back to us.

Being tracked against your will is a horrifying feeling, even worse when it’s your literal spouse doing it

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A shared her harrowing story of finding a hidden Air Tag in her car, placed there by her husband

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There are few “good” reasons to track someone

There have been real-life cases where, exactly as the husband mentioned, stolen cars were recovered using Air Tags. Just last year, a North Carolina family, in collaboration with the police, recovered their car because they could track it. Reportedly, the police were positively surprised that a stolen vehicle could be found in minutes using a roughly thirty dollar piece of tech.

Of course, for every “correct” use of an Air Tag, there are multiple instances where people abuse the technology. If you have never seen one, it’s basically the size of a coin. In other words, it’s very small and easy to hide, which makes them a stalker’s dream. Apple did build in alerts about Air Tags in one’s vicinity, but it does not work on Android devices, which are what the majority of people use. Apple did later release an app for Android users, but this is not something most of us would think to download unless we were already worried about a stalker.

Similarly, some experts have found that it can still work if someone removes its speakers. Unfortunately, there is even an entire industry of “aftermarket” Air Tags that are modified this way. The BBC has reported that multiple women have already found these sorts of modified Air Tags on their personal belongings.

Similarly, car owners have found unknown Air Tags on their own cars after leaving them in a parking lot. The truth is that these devices, while useful for a few things, are truly a stalker’s dream, since they are small, cheap, modifiable and very, very easy to hide. Similarly, the vast majority of people do not want to be tracked, even by someone they know.

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Trust issues will often irreparable damage a relationship

This is the real crux of this story. The husband’s “excuse” for the Air Tag doesn’t really hold water. He doesn’t do it for other cars and, as the woman stated, they literally have an app for this. Tracking a partner who you think might be cheating isn’t an impossible option, but, importantly, he doesn’t even try to accuse her. If he had evidence or even a suspicion, this would be a good way to explain his own behavior. It’s not like affairs don’t happen, but if he is just paranoid without reason, he doesn’t even bring up this possibility.

But quite clearly, he doesn’t even bring up this option, opting for a non-explanation. Similarly, he doesn’t think that transferring control to the Air Tag is a viable option. As some of the commenters suggest, perhaps he is the one hiding things. Some partners are just downright controlling, but after twelve years together, this doesn’t seem to be the case here. Instead, as one reader put forward, maybe he is cheating or just doing something he doesn’t want to get caught for and needs to see when she is coming home.

Perhaps this is just some unresolved issues coming to the forefront of this relationship. But it’s pretty clear that he is unable to tell her why he placed an Air Tag. His excuses seem laughable and are frankly insulting. While she never does explain exactly how she knew it was him, he also doesn’t deny it, so he must have been the culprit. After all, remember, there are documented cases of people finding strange Air Tags in their vehicles, but this is clearly not the case here. Perhaps he is paranoid and just unwilling to admit it or maybe he has some more nefarious motive. Of course, we are also taking the wife’s story at face value, when she could be leaving out details.

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