GirlGI | Girl Gone International GirlGI Issue 3 | Page 66

For the Love of Travel Love and Sex Editor, Tina Jones, shares what she sacrificed for her love of travel and what she gained in return. It was a Sunday, the first week of December 2011 and I was at the office working against a deadline. My mother called to give me an update on the planning of my wedding scheduled for July 29, 2012. We were planning a destination wedding in Grand Teton National Park so everything had to be confirmed well ahead of time. Most of the guests would be traveling at least a thousand miles for the event so ‘save the date’ announcements had been sent out the week prior. My mother was mid-sentence when I snapped – “I can’t do it mom. I can’t marry Henry. I just can’t do it. We want completely different things out of life.” I broke up with Henry three hours later. I never looked back.