10 tips for traveling as a couple - and not breaking up

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Your "Plan together" tip is spot on, though I think it should really be called "Plan together, plan apart." The divide and conquer the planning strategy was what made my year-long round-the-world trip with my husband work. Our friends have been very impressed that we didn't kill each other, and planning apart was the trick.

It took us a couple of months to recognize my strength was planning ahead, his was planning the immediate. So, he figured out where we were going that day, how we were getting there, while I took care of when we needed to move to the next destination, flights, hostels. It worked out that I got the days off and he got the nights.

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