5 Ways Self-Isolating With Your Partner Tests Your Travel Compatibility

Self-isolation is hard. It’s lonely, frustrating and anxiety-inducing.

Having a partner to self-isolate with in these difficult times is a huge comfort, but the added level of intensity can cause arguments.

Although born out of much happier and more hopeful circumstances, we’ve found that travelling as a couple shares some similarities with being in self-isolation with your other half.

If you’ve never travelled with your significant other or are planning a longer trip with them in future, then read our list of the 5 Ways Self-Isolating With Your Partner Tests Your Travel Compatibility below, to figure out if you’ll be successful travel companions!

1. It Puts Alot Of Pressure On The Relationship

Deciding to self-isolate with your partner can put a new relationship under a lot of scrutiny and travelling together can have a similar effect.

Before Alex and I took our first big trip together we were nervous. While we’d been dating happily for eight months, we secretly worried that a three-week trip overseas could break us. Fortunately, we had an incredible time and it brought us closer together.

Surviving lockdown as a couple will take the pressure off that first big trip.

2. You’re Together 24/7 

If you don’t normally work with your partner, being thrust into 24/7 self-isolation with them can be intense.

Travelling together can also test your relationship as holidays mean a lot more facetime than usual with the one you love. Having so much time with your partner can be a luxury, but it can also highlight your differences and little quirks.

If being around your partner 24/7 in isolation is easy then travelling together will be too.

3. Travel Can Be Stressful Too

The anxiety we’re experiencing in these trying times can put a strain on our relationships. Travel is wonderful, but it can be stressful too.

Whether your bag has been stolen on a 14-hour bus ride in Chile, or its 42°C in Florence and your partner has booked a room with no air conditioning (all things that have happened to us), travel isn’t always perfect.

How you handle these stressful times together indicates how you’ll overcome your travel failures.

5. Space & Privacy Are Non-Existent

 For many of us who live in apartments or smaller abodes, working from home at the same time as our partner isn’t always easy.

Negotiating separate work calls and work schedules can be difficult. The lack of space and privacy can be too. Most hotel rooms can also start to feel confined after many days of sharing one bedroom and bathroom.

Patience and understanding are key to handling the lack of space and privacy that comes with self-isolation.

Achieve this now and sharing a hotel room on your travels will be simple.

So, travelling as a couple should be a wonderful experience and having so much time together a luxury. If you and the one you love can survive the challenges you face in lockdown, then you’re guaranteed to have a high level of travel compatibility. And you’ll love travelling together as much as we do.