Traveling
couple: 7 tips for a healthy relationship
There is love in the air! Arrange just to maintain a healthy
relationship during your vacation by following our advice.
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couple traveling can be a unique experience that allows to
maintain or even strengthen a healthy relationship. This also allows to test the limits
and links to two face a new environment, new cultures and new challenges. Source of enrichment but also of
tensions, there are some simple rules to follow to avoid the trip turns to
disaster for your relationship. Here
are our tips for traveling both as serenely as possible.
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Start with the right person
It may seem obvious, yet! It is often said that travel makes or
breaks a couple, and it's true. And
while it is nice to build memories together is a real horror to travel with
someone who does not fit you, if at all.
The trip will only amplify what irritates you already have at home,
so ask yourself the right questions before you go: will you be able to live 24h
/ 24 together and to
face the difficulties of the journey?
·
Prepare a realistic budget
When Pink Floyd sang ""
Money, So They Say, is the root of all evil today "(" money is the
source of all evil today "), they are not wrong. Nothing is more frustrating than being
short of money during the holidays. Put
you agree before you go and set a budget in relation to each of your desires.
This is the budget that will determine if indeed you will end up
in a messy hostel in Barcelona , or
you will burst into a beautiful hotel in Bali .
And even if your desires are consistent, define your priorities
set on the budget. This will
avoid problems when you realize your dream by flying over the Grand Canyon in a
helicopter, engulfing one quarter of the budget!
·
Turn you agree on the share of each
If your relationship is not yet reached the stage
"joint account", it would be good to define together what each will
pay for these holidays.
Rather than create tension where one would feel frustrated to pay
perhaps more than the other, it's a good idea to determine a common budget for
activities and restaurants for example, while keeping each his side an amount
for personal expenses.
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Do you make friends
Whatever your level of privacy, you
probably have not spent as much time together before. In addition, to meet others is not
only a solution to avoid conflicts, it is also the possibility to open up to
others and to new experiences.
And it does not always have things to talk about when you travel
as a couple, the topics of conversation eventually run out! Making friends, listen to the advice
of other travelers or simply chat with people from different cultures are part
of the things we remember long after returning. Besides sometimes these friendships
last beyond time and boundaries!
·
Separate yourself from time to time
After you have made new friends, you
may also need to spend time both. But
remember: be couple does not mean having to stay together all the time.
If your divergent interests please everyone from your side, one
for shopping, another to try a new sport for example. Moreover, this is a time when the
other fail you and the reunion will be even warmer!
·
Think before you speak
The hotel has lost your reservation? Do not like the attitude of the server
in this restaurant? The taxi
driver tried to rip you off?
These are things that happen. Do
not take as long to your partner. Take
a deep breath and think before you go out thinking that will not help the situation.
And though, if you do not succeed, step back and especially the
time to apologize to your partner! The
apology and communication are indeed the foundation for a strong and healthy
relationship.
·
Put your energy in common
What you remember you said when you met
(e)? "That's my half!"
Ok, this is perhaps not exactly that, but still, do you realize:
you definitely each of the strengths that, when combined, will allow you easily
pass all obstacles! You may have
a negotiation, while your spouse knows make eyes for a table at the restaurant
without having booked!
Make sure you highlight your mutual strengths. The trip will be even more fun and
memories you will reap, the better!
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