Where is your perfect holiday?
You have a near-perfect relationship (I'll let you define what one of these actually is), yet you can't decide on where to take a break together.
You have completely different tastes in the best ways to relax for those two weeks during the summer and this usually leads to a couple of arguments along the road to find that perfect holiday destination.
Women's online travel community, Thelma & Louise and new travel partner, GoLearnTo.com have spoke about the increasing trend of married women not taking holidays with their husbands - they've even coined a new theory of 'Holiday Incompatibility Syndrome'.
Christine Davies, Thelma & Louise co-founder, says: "Men and women often have very divergent holiday tastes. I was inspired to launch Thelma & Louise after me own husband refused to come with me on a back-packers' tour of the Northern Territory in Australia.
"I found a female travel buddy online who shared my ambition to climb Ayers Rock and off we went, leaving my husband behind to enjoy his luxury, Sydney hotel."
Columnist Allison Pearson described her own case, her travel agent identified it as a 'classic case of late-onset Holiday Incompatibility Syndrome (HIS)' between her and her husband.
She writes in the Daily Telegraph: "I like to lie dow, he like to stand up. I like to bake my Vitamin-D deprived bones, he hates the heat. My idea of a relaxinf morning is a smiley man with a tray - think Rafa Nadal's cousin - bringing my something cool in a tall glass. His idea of a relaxing morning is finding a fossil or a church with a glass case containing the leprous finger os a saint who died a prolonged death that has a firework named after it."
They've found that 85 per cent of their customers are women and a growing proportion of those women are married or attached but are booking places on holidays and courses without their other-halves.
Vanessa Lenssen, founder of learning holiday specialist, GoLearnTo.com, and a travel partner of Thelma & Louise, says: "It's not to say that they never holiday with their partners. They do. It's simply that they wnat to seize the opportunity to do something that's just for them once in a while, whether that's a cookery course in Italy or painting lessons in the Dordogne."
Femalefirst Taryn Davies
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