Long commutes can be exhausting. Worse, they can be poison for your couple. Swedish researcher Erika Sandow surveyed one million Swedes between 1995 and 2005 to determine the impact of working remotely from home on the couple’s health. Its conclusions are not reassuring: the risk of separation rises to 40% when the home-work journey is more than 45 minutes. To limit the damage, it is better to stay at a more reasonable distance, less than 45 minutes from home.
It should be noted, however, that this risk of rupture is particularly present when these shuttles have been carried out for less than a year. The researcher points out that couples who have been used to traveling more than 45 minutes to work for more than five years seem immune to this danger. His observations show that these couples are indeed no more at risk than couples who work close to home.
A curious detail, this risk of separation would watch more men than women. Women who travel a long way to work only expose themselves to an 8% increased risk of separation from their partner. Would men be more inclined to complain about these journeys? Unfortunately, the study does not provide any explanations, leaving us free to imagine the most likely scenario: distance, lack of communication, fatigue…
The question of working away from your couple refers to the famous debate around long-distance relationships. For some people, they solidify the couple when for others they are doomed to failure. Here again, reality is ultimately very subjective.
