I have told the story before of why my husband actually found iNaturalist for me in the first place.
My family knows if we visit ruins or anywhere, I am likely to slow them down by taking photos of plants and what have you, so we set meeting places for “in case we get separated”s.
On a regular basis, they will point out things they spot that are exciting, sometimes out of doors sometimes in, sometimes new to me sometimes not. They beam at any info I can give. My husband is especially proud of my stingless bee knowledge. A few nights ago my daughter in law called to say my son was quite ill and she felt he needed to be seen so we took them to Urgencias at a hospital (this is much easier I think here than it might be elsewhere). Here the whole family typically attends, and so we were all waiting for the doctor to come back with discharge paperwork in an area close to the automatically opening door when we noticed a little friend marching across the floor. I of course photographed it and then my husband scooped it up with the prescriptions my son had been given to take it outside to release. (He’s fine, just a bad virus with high fever and he got dehydrated.) My family was quite tickled that I recognized instantly it was a type of scorpion and not a small spider as they first pointed it out to me, though at the time the specific “whiptail” escaped me. I only remembered I had seen a larger one that was similar before in the laundry casita of the old house.
My family are extremely supportive of one another, for which I am grateful. My heart goes out to those in less supportive situations.