My family has always been like this, but I genuinely think it's more about them knowing I arrived to my destination safely as opposed to being possessive. However, saying something about hearing about a plane crash or something negative isn't really necessary to say. That's just being pessimistic. I do sometimes ask people I care about to let me know that they arrived to their destination safely, but I don't get mad if they don't. I generally just assume they made it safely if I don't hear from them.

Never experienced that growign up. It was more like "let me know where you're going to be". and soemtiems "be home by..."

I forget to text when I get home >90% of the time. I appreciate when my family let's me know, but never worry if they don't.

I have never had a problem with that one. If it makes them rest easier, that is fine with me. A text can do it also.

I think your daughter is just cares about you, while your ex mother in law was overprotective.

In the oilfield, this is known as “safe journey management “ - getting to and from the job site is the most dangerous part of the day. It’s not a bad idea, but it feels a bit like being micro managed - which isn’t fun:/

Go with the flow! My family is a mixture - some of them are really surprised if I tell them I arrived safely, some of them panic if I don't get in touch immediately. We have a family WhatsApp group so I just put a message on that.

I can't say that I was ever asked to do that, I just did it because I care about my significant others.

I always tell them that they'll hear about any crash or issue I'm involved in long before I can call them, and that if anything eventful in the trip does happen I'll call them.

But for insistent ones I always detour and make sure I get home much later than expected, and tell them all about dinner, the stores I went to, the park, whatever I choose to do besides going straight home.

My SO and I check in with each other when one of us is away. Just a simple text message is enough. Sometimes friends might ask me to text them when I get home from an outing until late at night because it's usually a long drive for me on pretty much isolated highways. Most of the time people just get updates from me on Facebook and they are content. LOL. As for family traditions in general, I can't stand any traditions of any kind. I just don't participate but everyone knows I'm anti-social anyhow.

What we resist persists. just change the meaning you made up about it. That's what I do. Nice they care you get home safely.

I'm definitely an "in the news" type, I only ever do check-ins when maybe a little too much time was spent at the bar

We were always away, my husband and I, and out of reach for weeks sometimes, in the days prior to mobile phones. When my mother was alive I would have phoned when I arrived home again from an overseas trip, but never whilst abroad. My own sons went off to university in England armed with phone cards to use in public phone boxes to phone home, but the calls were only spasmodic, I didn’t worry about not hearing from them in the least. I think this being in constant touch by phone or text is a relatively new thing since the invention of the cellphone that everyone now carries. I’m a bit of a dinosaur and don’t really feel the need to use my cellphone constantly and may or may not have it even charged up or with me! I do usually let my son know when I’m going to be away and ring him when I return home....just as a courtesy in case he may be worried.

There could have been bandits on the road back to your castle.

Always been that way with my family - even if only driving a few miles - they would all go ape shit when I went abroad and could be out of contact for weeks