Life is all about tradeoffs and choices - on both sides of a relationship. There is more to the adventurous outdoors than hiking the long trails. Consider a more intense, shorter trip like a mountain summit or a challenging cave trip; or backpacking through any number of extensive wilderness areas for a week or so.

I suspect that more many of us, a break of about a week is fairly easy to handle on both sides. Stretching beyond that can get dicey.