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Summer Travel
August 17, 2023
How has your summer been? Any travel that you’ve had that you enjoyed? I had the opportunity to travel alone with my husband this summer and it was long overdue. I say all the time that you should make time for each other. In reality, it can be really hard to do. We did it and it was magical. Here are some reasons why you should make the time to travel together!
Traveling together can be a great way to strengthen your relationship
If you’re like me, I love a plan and I like to look forward to things. Well, we planned out this trip a year in advance! Taking the time to talk about where you want to go, how long you want to stay and what you want to experience can fill those days when you just want to watch a TV show. Start brainstorming and start dreaming of where you want to travel together.
Sharing new experiences and creating memories can bring you closer as a couple
I can safely say that we will be talking about this trip for a long time. We did so many cool things and had so many memories that I didn’t know that I wanted to do that I will be looking at our pictures when our life gets stressful or I just need a break. To relieve the moment even afterward can help you feel closer to your partner after you return home.
When you travel together, you have the opportunity to navigate new environments and situations as a team, which can help build trust and communication skills
Can travel be stressful? Yep, it can, but in those times, you learn how to be a better couple because you are working on your listening skills, coping skills, and your ability to just laugh things off which is needed at times. Stressful times are challenging and how you navigate them can definitely shed some light on how you work as a couple. I recommended to everyone that they talk about it and work on establishing better communication if things don’t go as planned. Always room for improvement right?
Taking a break from your daily routine and spending quality time together can help reignite the spark in your relationship.
Should you need to take a break, who better to do it with than your significant other. Enjoy each other, remember what you fell in love with, and create new memories to keep that spark alive!
More than just surviving
April 2, 2019
Happy Spring Break and more than happy to be back in the groove today!!! I had the pleasure of going on a vacation last week and since it was a short trip, we decided to drive. Each way was about 9 hours and the way up we did it straight through and on the way back we broke up the trip. Boy oh boy was it an adventure.
I’m not saying that in a negative way, I’m saying that it was awesome!!!
Time to get my point right?
Well, it was a family trip and since we’re always a couple, we look for ways to stay connected when we travel. Anyone know what I mean? Do I mean you drop the kids off at a camp? Nope, not on this trip.
As I constantly say, you’re always a couple and you’re always working on your relationship. Here’s some tips that I found helpful to stay connected on this trip.
- Separate Rooms – If you can swing this, I highly recommend it. We are very fortunate that when we travel, we can rent houses now which accommodate families. (AirBNB? Yes please!) And yes, sleeping with your partner alone on a family trip can do wonders for intimacy.
- Adult Time – Anyone continue their rituals of connections when they travel? If you do, great! If you don’t, let’s come up with a few travel rituals that work for both of you and start using them ASAP.
- Talk it out – Yes, of course there were a few tense moments on the trip, especially in the car. If your partner is upsetting you, talk it out and figure out what’s bothering you. Mostly likely it’s a trigger that is upsetting you that you need to figure out.
- Planning or Not Planning – Umm, I’m 100% a planner, my hubby, no so much. He’s more of the let’s live in the moment type. If your styles are different, come up with a compromise that works. For us, mostly our days were planned out, meals are on the go. Yes, still getting used to it, but it works well both ways so no one way is right or wrong.
- Don’t overdo it! – Vacations are supposed to be fun, right? So DON’T over do it. There’s so much to see in this world, yes you can stop and smell the roses if that’s what you want to do. Enjoy your time.
- Live in the moment – This means different things for different people but for us, we take minimal pictures and really enjoy each other and what we are doing. Help each other out with this one. If you’re looking at your vacation through your camera, put it away and explore what’s right in front of you.
Enjoy that vacation
Being able to enjoy a family vacation with my partner has been a work in progress for sure. Maybe some of you are better at this than others but for me, I had to work up to this point. It helps that our kids are really enjoying their time together and we push them to hang out. Great part about this is there’s always another opportunity to try again.
So, who’s planning a trip?
How was your last one? Any tips to share with all of us?
I can’t wait to hear from you about your tried and true methods to enjoy your vacations!!
To Vacation or Not
May 4, 2014
So we woke up Saturday morning and decided to pack up the kids, the car and go for a mini vacation. Not the usual way I plan a trip but we found a hotel in the keys, had my mom walk our dog and off we went. As a business owner and a mom of 2 young children there is no such thing as vacation time per say but I am a true believer that vacations are good for the soul and the stress level!
As my stress seminar is fast approaching on May 21 @ Kol Tikvah at 7:30 I am always looking for new ways to reduce my stress. Now you would think that traveling with 2 small children in a car for 2 hours would add to the stress but I am quickly finding out that practice makes perfect. The more you take them, the easier it is. I left the house a mess, didn’t really forget anything and had a blast!
While I was away I thought of all the things we would have been doing this weekend such as birthday parties, hanging out with friends, going to pool and the gym which are all great but on the other hand, we exposed our girls to kayaking for the first time and wave runners. It was a new experience and one that I want to continue to do with them.
Yes, it is work and yes it costs money to travel but there are always deals to be had and ways to avoid stress so I am a new less stressed person which inspired me to write my first blog in forever.
So are you for or against vacations?