As Taylor Swift puts it, it could leave you breathless, or leave you a nasty scar. Going on vacation is a great thing to do as a couple, but lots of things can go awry. Here are 10 reasons why couples break up after vacation.
#1 Money
![One of you might be thinking 5-star, the other, hostel.](https://wanderluxe.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/http-graphics8.nytimes.comimages20130519arts19ACQUISITION_SPAN19ACQUISITION_SPAN-superJumbo-1024x682.jpg)
Insufficient or plain bad budgeting is grounds for splitsville, so you might want to make sure you’re on the same page (e.g if she’s expecting a 5-star vacay, you should be too) and have some wiggle room for that budget!
#2 Wandering Eyes (and hands)
![You're texting... who??!](https://wanderluxe.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Screen-Shot-2014-11-11-at-6.53.41-am-1024x486.png)
If your location is blessed with ridiculously good-looking people, chances are either one (or both) of you will be a green-eyed monster before the day’s end. Buff instructors, sexy senoritas…you get the drift #justsayin’
#3 Wrong holiday spot
![It's all peaches and cream till a bear charges in and he ditches you to run for his life.](https://wanderluxe.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/http-3.bp_.blogspot.com-ZiZzOQJlheET_LlBAhFSIIAAAAAAAAEjMxxS_NW-VZ0Ys1600kiss-couple-love-forest-trees.jpg.jpg)
Have you watched the Amazing Race? Bad choices leads to tension leads to ugly situations. This is an excellent time to test if there any hidden nasties or inner strengths.
#4 Travelling with friends
![Be warned, you're on thin ice here.](https://wanderluxe.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/http-images.essentialtravel.co_.uket-magazinehot-right-nowfriends-travelling.jpg.jpg)
If you get into a spat with one or more of their BFFs, sides may have to be taken (and this is never a good thing). What’s worse than them not getting along? Them getting along too well. Which brings us to our next point…
#5 Cheating
![Sucks if it's your BFF.](https://wanderluxe.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/http-www.finerminds.comwp-contentblogs.dir33files201211shutterstock_78516709.jpg.jpg)
The worst case scenario is that s/he falls for your best friend and with a little alcohol lubricant, things get nasty for everyone.
#6 Itinerary
!["Are we there yet?"](https://wanderluxe.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/http-www.zastavki.compictures1920x12002011Sport_Mountain_Climbing_031807_.jpg-1024x640.jpg)
6am sunrise. 8am breakfast. 9am trekking. 10am sightseeing. Quality time? Forgetabouddit.
#7 Lack of personal space
![Some people need physical personal bubbles to get the idea.](https://wanderluxe.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/http-images.gizmag.comherococoon1.jpg.jpg)
It’s not you, it’s me. Actually it’s the small hotel room you rented, and honestly I don’t want to hear what you do in the bathroom. There is such a thing as getting too much of one another…
#8 Serial Workaholics
![Imagine going on holiday with Miranda Priestly.](https://wanderluxe.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/http-darkroom.stylist.co_.uk980bf2841775fa631163eee76cde4c56e18-74b4c2bda46bebdee53073ded0f60884devil-wears-prada.png.png)
Bleep, bleep. Bleep, bleep. So you’re on holiday but your significant other is STILL on their bloody phone checking emails and replying messages from work. Enough already!
#9 Sexual chemistry #FAIL
![How to tell when he just isn't that into you...](https://wanderluxe.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/http-4.bp_.blogspot.com-GUbQe1XTzToUzNb8lG0bZIAAAAAAAABKoHwWFDlPRpjUs1600Hayley-and-Elijah-the-originals-tv-show-36041748-1280-720.jpg-1024x576.jpg)
They are expecting daily sex, you’re not. Negative pent up sexual energy is more detrimental to a relationship than nuclear power is to world peace, so draw some lines before you board that flight.
#10 You just aren’t meant to be!
![It's not me, it's YOU.](https://wanderluxe.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/pic-2-2-e1415785898965.jpg)
You knew it before you went on holiday, but everything confirms it now. Conversation dries up, you want to do different things, you’re not seeing eye-to-eye at all. You know what to do #getmeoutofhere!