Celebrity Cruises' Captain Kate shares key advice for couples

Megastar Cruises' Captain Kate McCue has achieved a level of fame it truly is unusual for a cruise ship officer.

She received notice in 2015 for turning into the first American woman to captain a giant cruise ship: Megastar Summit. In October 2021 she took the helm of Megastar Beyond. And she has built on her distinctive career path with her renowned "Captain's Log" Instagram video blog.

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In her series she documents a different a portion of life on board every day. On the way to be her sharing what the day is like for her hairless cat, Malicious program, or showing what a captain does when docking the whole way through bad weather.

A sort of Captain Kate's fans know she is married, but her husband does now not are living with her on Megastar Beyond.

He works right throughout the industry, so he does understand her agenda, but in her most modern Captain's Log, Season 2, Episode forty four, she shared how the couple has made this long-distance relationship work.

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Megastar Beyond's captain shares her secret to a happy marriage

Captain Kate, who's Forty six, opened her most modern video with Malicious program poking out of her shirt while holding a pillow version of her husband.

"People always assume that this career means long-distance relationships are a fact of life and relationship balance seriously is never always attainable," she said. "But when it will be all possible have you may have gotten gotten got got known for nearly twenty years together, I always joke that the secret to a happy marriage is different time zones and never being right throughout the same place on the same time."

In point of fact, while separation is portion of her marriage, Captain Kate and her husband do get other benefits that folk in traditional jobs do not experience.

"The actual fact is that I in fact have a person who understands me and supports what I do for a living," she says. "Yes, work takes us far off from each and every other for months, nonetheless it also gives us the opportunity to be together 24/7 for the three months of vacation."

Captain Kate works a three-months-on, three-months-off agenda.

"We normally get to retire and experience new things together six months out of the year. without the added pressure or responsibility of labor," she added.

Her husband also works on ships and has been keen about a project on Royal Caribbean's Independence of the Seas. That implies both do once in it slow get to appear each and every other when both ships dock in Miami.

Megastar Beyond sails from Fort Lauderdale, so when both ships are in port, he (Nikola) can come discuss along with his wife on her ship. The couple will also spend time together when their ships happen to be right throughout the same ports.

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They do not plan those visits, nonetheless. They let themselves be surprised when they finally turn out right throughout the same spot.

"Except the turnaround days we do not in general check our schedules to appear if the ships will meet up because once in it slow the appropriate dates are the impromptu rendezvous in a new place," she shared.

"As an instance, we now have gotten had surprise reunions in Puerto Rico, New Orleans, Dominican Republic, Naples, Italy, and my favorite, Dubrovnik, Croatia."

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