We’re on a seven-month honeymoon | Readers’ lives

Rakhee and Sandy quit their jobs before getting married and have embarked on a seven-month honeymoon. So far they have been to Singapore, the Philippines, New Zealand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Nepal and Bhutan.

“Relationships are hard,” Sandy says. “If you can give yourself a foundational experience as a couple, that will help you through hard times later in life. Any loss of income will be mitigated by this shared experience.”

Just before Sandy met Rakhee, he had decided never to date an Asian woman again because he did not want to get involved in a relationship that ran the risk of coming under pressure from family expectations.

Yet he still swiped right when he spotted Rakhee’s profile on Tinder in 2016. She is Hindu, he is…