It’s not always easy to be apart from your loved ones for months on end, particularly if you’re working abroad somewhere unfamiliar.
But Michelle Keegan, 30, has chosen to take a positive approach after being separated from husband Mark Wright, 30, because of work commitments.
The former Corrie actress has been jetting all over the place while filming the third series of BBC army drama Our Girl, while Mark is over in Los Angeles trying to establish a US TV career.
However, rather than sulking or brooding about missing her man, Michelle is adopting a sunny attitude to their time apart.
In a new interview, she suggested the separation was actually a GOOD thing as it made them miss and appreciate each other even more.
“Luckily, we have Facetime,” she told Closer magazine.
“Though at the minute, the time difference is really hard – if I get in from work, he’s just getting up; and when he’s going to bed, I’m just getting up.
“We text as much as we can.”
The ex soap star has been travelling to the likes of South Africa, Nepal and Malaysia this year while shooting Our Girl’s third series.
Filming recently wrapped on the critically-acclaimed show, so Michelle has treated herself to a sunny vacation abroad.
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She’s holidaying without Mark, however, who is hard at work in LA in his new role as showbiz correspondent for entertainment series Extra.
He began work in September, saying: “The UK will always be my home, but right now America is the path that has opened up for me, and I have to follow that.”
But while Michelle reckons time apart strengthens them, it doesn’t make it any easier.
He wrote: “Bored!! Nothing is good without you!! Hollywood club or not, just not the same. 2 months hurry up.”
Then added a snap of himself drinking from a water bottle, captioned: “Lightweight”.
In a recent interview with The Sun, Michelle lashed out at constant reports their marriage is on the rocks, saying they aren’t true and are even a little bit “sexist” in her opinion.
She told The Sun: “It’s been hard enough being away anyway, but then to contend with all that… It just comes from nowhere.”
Mich added: “I don’t understand how a couple can’t have their separate careers, and why can’t a newly married woman go off and do her job and a husband go off and do his?
“I’d say there is a slight degree of sexism to it.”
Hear, hear!