Boldly Go Solo

"Don’t ruin a perfectly good holiday by taking your partner."

That’s the headline of a story in yesterday’s edition of The Independent, a British newspaper. The point is that many married people are heading out on vacation solo. And, loving it.

One person appreciated taking a break from "my usual boring, harassed, working-parent persona." When  parents travel without partners, there’s no one to make faces at them if they say or do the wrong thing. And there is no one to jump the gun with the punchline of the story they’re in the middle of telling.

The writer called married people who set off alone, "temporary singletons." 

A fifth of couples prefer to go on vacation separately, according to research. (British couples? It doesn’t say). Opodo,
an online European travel company, found that at least 27 percent of
customers in relationships regularly travel without their partners.

I
say, keep it up you marrieds (doubletons?). The more people who travel
alone, the better the chances that the  industry will feel obligated to
accommodate solo vacationers. And treat them more fairly than they do now.