Traveling Saves Marriages !
Traveling Saves Marriages !
I came across an article that made me think about how travel can save a marriage!! – Hear me out… The article was about a study that a Professor Arthur Aron, Ph.D. conducted at New York State at Stony Brook on how couples in long term marriages stayed “In Love.” It seems this study revealed that continuous new experiences by couples were a critical factor. They had couples go out on a date night and half went to the same restaurant and the others were made to go to a different dining venue each time out. Well, you ladies already know which couple had a higher feeling of love. Indeed, the couple that went to the different restaurants scored much higher in brain scans indicating affection and love for each other.
Being in the travel business, I once wrote that couples travel to keep their relationships fresh and exciting by experiencing new things. This study seems to validate this statement. Travel functions as a process of replacing the old experience with the new. Doing this together allows couples to have a fresh sense of excitement and commonality. Thus, travel can reduce the monotony of sameness and increase the sense of excitement in the relationship far beyond the 10 days on vacation. Travel may very well be one of the best aphrodisiacs for a stale relationship.
Happy Valentines Day – Now go someplace different…..Together.
