Skip navigation! Story from Relationships. Bree Grant. Last Updated 29October, , am. After the initial excitement of the upcoming trip wore off, I began to realise that I had just committed myself to three full days with him, two of which were going to be spent in a car for 6 hours at a time. I slowly started to question my decision to go away together this early on in the relationship. But it turns out that the road trip itself did more for our relationship than I could have ever imagined.
You really get to know each other. Jumping in a car with someone and heading on a six-hour adventure really gives you the time to get to know them on a different level. Related Stories. For most couples, this can be a good time to move past surface-level conversations and dig a little deeper. We figured we had little else to do but talk, and the game gave us conversation starters without the pressure to come up with things to talk about β or worse, awkward silences. We took turns learning more about each other, digging past all the superficial stuff that had made up most of our conversations on previous dates.
Luckily for us, we loved what we learned about each other, and our relationship was better for it. You learn to compromise. Over the course of the trip, I learned that my ex and I had totally different tastes in music, so we agreed to take turns playing DJ. If something was genuinely unbearable for the other person, we could skip it. Learning to work through the small stuff really helps set the tone for how you work through and compromise on the bigger stuff.
Even if it's as seemingly small as deciding on a playlist, or picking a chip flavour during an essential snack pit-stop at the local Ampol , you'll start to find out what kind of conflict resolution tactics work early on in the relationship.
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You find out your argument style pretty quickly. A true test of any relationship is how you settle disagreements and move past heated moments. This can come up pretty quickly on a road trip, especially if one of you is navigating while the other is driving. Things can sometimes get a bit heated β turns can be missed, left and right can be confused, and maps can be misread β but how you treat each other in those moments gives you a good insight into how you will handle bigger, more serious disagreements down the line.
