First Trip Abroad
Congrats, you decided to take your first trip with your significant other!
Traveling together is what most people consider a big step in a relationship, and it’s when you find out if you make a good team when you are both outside of your comfort zones.
As you might know, Dan and I dated long-distance in the first year of our relationship.
In 2016, despite not having seen each other for nearly four months, our first trip together as a couple went very smoothly. We typically look back on it as one of our favorite trips ever.
We were having one of our well-deserved visits to see each other, which is one of the biggest tips for a long-distance relationship: plan some trips! We had a blast.
Traveling together is what most people consider a big step in their relationships. It’s when you find out if you make a good team when you are each outside your comfort zones. Here are a few things we kept in mind when we took our first trip together.
Communicate about your vision for the trip.
Be flexible and be prepared to make compromises.
Talk about a trip budget as a couple.
Show that you’ve helped to prepare by contributing suggestions for your partner.
Be transparent and honest about how you’d like to share the trip on social media.
We’ve grown so much from taking our first trip together to traveling long-term as a lifestyle change, traveling the world while working remotely. But it all started with this first holiday together, where we both wondered if we’d survive.
Here’s what we considered on our first trip and on our current trips.
Without ever having traveled with each other before, how did we know that we were ready to take a trip together?
We didn’t know for sure, but if we figured that if we liked each other enough to want to spend any type of longer amount of time together outside of regular routines, we were ready to give it a shot.
We both had the realization that we would probably travel well together after a few months of dating, when we spent an entire afternoon together and walked a whole bunch of miles to have adventures in NYC.
If we could make decisions on the fly together and find things to keep us both enthused, wouldn’t traveling together as a couple for the first time be fine?
Actually, we didn’t get to have that first real international trip for another four months.
Without ever having traveled with each other before, how did we know that we were ready to take a trip together?
We didn’t know for sure, but if we figured that if we liked each other enough to want to spend any type of longer amount of time together outside of regular routines, we were ready to give it a shot.
We both had the realization that we would probably travel well together after a few months of dating, when we spent an entire afternoon together and walked a whole bunch of miles to have adventures in NYC.
If we could make decisions on the fly together and find things to keep us both enthused, wouldn’t traveling together as a couple for the first time be fine?
Actually, we didn’t get to have that first real international trip for another four months.
