Emergency Contact

OK this maybe a stupid question, and after 12 cruises I should know by now, but I don't.

On the cruise forms it asks for Emergency Contact. I'm traveling with my wife. Obviously if something happens to me I want them to contact my wife. If something happens to her, I want to be contacted, but is that assumed? Should we put down relatives NOT on the cruise?

I just don't want something to happen to me, and then they try to contact my sister in SC instead of my wife on the ship. If my wife ever took a cruise with her friends, I'd want them to contact me on land and not her girlfriends.

Any idea?

They actually used to specify someone other than a person traveling with you. (The locals of whatever port you're at would notify the ship which would then notify anyone you are traveling with in the case of an emergency such as that.) What the cruiseline needs, is someone not on the ship with you for the emergency contact.