Coming and Going: How Travel can widen your horizons and improve your Relationship

Agnes and Ryan talk about how traveling together can strengthen a relationship. Agnes describes a recent trip through Switzerland, Austria and Germany, a night in an old English hunting lodge that she loved and her husband found creepy, and trips to Iceland and Scandinavia. They cover planning, compromise, trust, learning from other cultures and setting shared travel goals.

Takeaways

• Travel builds trust and communication because couples have to solve small problems together, so avoid blaming each other when plans go wrong.
• Plan trips together with shared interests and agree on a middle ground, and each partner should sometimes do something the other chose.
• Research local customs and rules before you go, and bring home something you learned from the culture.

Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome and topic
• 1:34 Agnes's trip to Switzerland, Austria and Germany
• 4:11 Trust and planning ahead
• 7:19 The Amazing Race and couples under pressure
• 7:50 An old hunting lodge: two different experiences
• 12:37 What Zurich and Switzerland taught them
• 14:11 Researching local rules and customs
• 16:48 Compromise and leaving your comfort zone
• 18:53 Setting travel goals together
• 22:32 Iceland and a Game of Thrones tour
• 25:14 Recap and wrap-up

Conversation and opinion, not medical, legal, tax or financial advice.