The brochure never showed the folding cot, the receipt, or the 5 a.m. departure. Somewhere in the last century the holiday stopped being a rest and became a repair — a scheduled window in which a marriage is meant to remember itself. Couples book flights on that assumption, and some spend the first three days quietly frightened it isn't working. Here is what the research on sleep, holidays and desire actually describes, what it conspicuously doesn't, and why the honeymoon — invented as a chaperoned round of family visits — was never built to carry the job we now hand it.

Nobody warns you that the flight is decided before you board. The cabin is dry, mildly depressurised and completely still — and everything that makes it bearable is either something you wore, something you packed within reach, or something you do on the hour. Here's the plan, from the gate to the arrivals hall.

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