Ship Life: The DARK Truth About Cruise Ship Relationships
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Ship life looks glamorous on TikTok- sunsets, port day dates, and romantic moments that feel straight out of a movie. But the reality of cruise ship relation
You're living on a ship. So when you meet someone that you really connect with, it's so much more intense than if you met that same person on land.
One week you'd see the captain down in the crew bar shacking up with one of the girls in the weight staff team. And then the next week you'd see the exact same captain touring his wife and son around the cruise ship.
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