I was in Portugal for 10 days for a meditation retreat. My husband and son were home in Pennsylvania. They were at home not because they didn’t want to be in Portugal.
No, they were home because I had not invited them.
For so many reasons, I wanted to travel alone: to focus on meditation rather than the needs of family life, to sleep without his snoring, to eat wherever I wanted, to go and come as I pleased, even to watch mindless films on the airplane without someone tapping me on the shoulder.
Many years ago, author Cheryl Jarvis first recommended “marriage sabbaticals,” or taking three months off from your marriage to pursue another interest (such as writing). In her controversial book, Jarvis claimed that the time away would leave one feeling refreshed and allow one to appreciate one’s spouse much more.
