This article explores the challenges of maintaining friendships when travel styles and personalities clash. It provides advice on how to communicate travel boundaries effectively, especially when a friend's aspirations don't align with your own.
Published: Sep. 27, 2024, 2:00 a.m.Although we are different and have different interests, we have enough common ground to maintain our friendship. I’ve traveled extensively outside the country and she wants us to go on an international trip together. I do not want to, but I don’t know how to say it without hurting her feelings.
I can only make excuses for so long. She’ll find out I’ve traveled with other people. Our travel styles are different, our financial abilities are different and she embarrasses me in social situations. She also lacks common sense. Think Cousin Eddy from “National Lampoon”.One of the most empowering lessons of my 30s was that some friends are simply “at-home” friends.
Have a conversation with your friend about your different travel styles. This is the least loaded of your objections to her. If you’re an early riser who likes to hike all day and she sleeps late and wants to lay on a beach, then you’re not aligned. It’s fine to point that out. The other objections are a tad concerning – why are you friends with someone who embarrasses you socially and has no common sense? Could some of this travel anxiety also be about whether you want to be friends at all? Something to consider.
But back to the matter at hand: ask her what she was hoping to get out of a trip together. Maybe what she really needs is advice on how to plan. But even if she’s envious of your social media posts from far-flung locales and wants to join, it’s perfectly acceptable to set a boundary in this friendship. It just so happens that, when it comes to traveling with her, your boundary is the border of the United States of America.
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