I took a sabbatical from my marriage –  this is what I learnt

I first heard the term “marriage sabbatical” from a friend. Author and editor Ruby Warrington got a job in Ibiza while her husband stayed in America, and they lived apart for about eight months. She said it saved her marriage.

For a while, I had been fantasising about taking a long solo trip abroad. A “workacation”, a trip where I can focus solely on myself and my writing. Since the age of 22, I have been in a relationship (and subsequently married) to the same brilliant person. As…