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5 Surprising Advantages Traveling Solo Helped Me With Relationships

If you haven’t traveled solo, you need to do it NOW!

Sara Burdick
8 min readOct 22, 2021
On a tour of Communa 13 in Medellin, Colombia

I never imagined that I would be someone who could actually travel alone. My entire life I was in and out of relationships, I always had a boyfriend.

Or at least someone I was “talking” to.

You know the type, someone who is there for when you get bored, but know that it will never go anywhere.

I was also afraid to do anything by myself or have my own opinions. Always seeking validation of others.

Honestly, I was always drinking and a disaster in every single relationship I was in, including the one with myself. That one was the worst.

I was the queen of self-sabotage, in every way.

Photo by Stephen Radford on Unsplash

The person I was dating was always in my first line of destruction.

I hated when I became this person, yet also couldn’t stop her.

Who was she, and why was she here? How can I fix this relationship with this evil person?

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Sara Burdick
Sara Burdick

Written by Sara Burdick

I quit the rat race after working as a nurse for 16 years. Travel and Storyteller. I live in Colombia. https://substack.com/@saraburdick

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