Yes: I am!!!
My wife and I never 'hound' each other into something. There are a number of things we do together and there are things that we undertake seperately. We live in the Netherlands and I have done several things on my own:
- visited 2 music festivals in the USA
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Camino Frances in 2011
- Monty Python live show in London in 2014
- Camino del Norte in 2016
- Via de la Plata in 2018
- Part of the del Norte, Camino del Salvador, Primitivo and Invierno in 2022
Meanwhile my wife (instead of sitting at home waiting for me to return) would do all sorts of fun stuff, like going on a 12 day workshop in Switzerland, visit the seaside (staying in a 4-star hotel with the dog), spending a long weekend in Paris with a girlfriend and so on.....
My wife and I don't have children. So when we are together the focus is pretty much always on each other. Doing this seperately is a bit like taking a holiday of each other. Instead of being together all the time and sharing the same experiences, spending time away from each other means that we have a lot to talk about when we see each other again. My wife and I both cherish these opportunities.
That having said: my wife and I walked from our hometown in Holland to St. Jean-pied-de-Port together and, when my wife was supposed to walk her
Camino Frances in 2014 alone but got cold feet: I joined her for the first 4 days. After that she and I split ways and walked our own Camino, joining 2 days before Santiago in order to finish it together.
We also walked long distance trails (1-2 weeks) together all over Europe. It's just that she doesn't like prolonged walks (5-6 weeks) anymore. But I do. Very much so.