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Travel can serve as a trial run for a longer-term relationship, bringing lot of unpredictable stresses.

Don't turbulence test too early during dating. Make sure that you have built enough trust with each other.

Travel can reveal clear incompatibilities. But it can also show whether the two you can adapt accordingly.

Is it time to "trip" up your relationship? Well, that's what "turbulence testing" is supposed to do. This seemingly "plane" term is being used on the internet to describe the tactic of going on a trip with your significant other to test how compatible the two of you really are.

Travel Can Bring Unpredictable Stresses

The "turbulence" part of the term is a play on the bumpiness that you may experience on an airplane ride due to the unpredictable appearance of different disruptive air currents. The thought with "turbulence testing" is that taking some kind of lengthier trip will similarly bring unpredictable stresses to you and your partner. For example, flights might get delayed, reservations may get messed up, rude people may intersect, and items may get lost. When traveling to someplace new, neither of you is in a familiar environment and neither can hide behind routines.

Turbulence Testing Can Be a Trial Run for a More Serious Relationship

This, in turn, might shed more light on what each of you is really like and how both of you handle such stress. You also may get to see each other in potentially more raw and less flattering circumstances. For........

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