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Would you holiday WITHOUT YOUR KIDS?

‘I WANTED A BREAK FROM EVERYTHING’

Eimear O’Hagan, 40, lives in Scotland with her husband Malcolm, 40, and their two children Ruadhan, six, and Donnacha, four.

Lying by the pool, a book and a cocktail to hand, I sighed contentedly. The only decisions that lay ahead of me were which restaurant to go to, and what movie I should watch after my hot-stone massage.

In August 2021, I waved goodbye to my husband and children and spent a couple of days alone at the Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire. It was my 40th-birthday gift to myself.

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