{"id":1998,"date":"2023-01-03T14:47:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T14:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/strongermarriages\/?p=1998"},"modified":"2023-05-26T18:32:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T18:32:01","slug":"dolly-parton-shares-the-secret-of-success-to-her-56-year-marriage-it-was-meant-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/strongermarriages\/2023\/01\/dolly-parton-shares-the-secret-of-success-to-her-56-year-marriage-it-was-meant-to-be.html","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton Shares the Secret of Success to Her 56-Year Marriage: “It Was Meant to Be”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dolly Parton\u00a0is sharing the key to a successful marriage.\u00a0The\u00a0country music icon<\/a>\u00a0got candid about her 56-year marriage to husband and Nashville, Tennessee, businessman Carl Thomas Dean.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like it when people say, \u2018How did it last so long?\u2019 I say, \u2018I stay going,\u2019\u201d Parton said during an interview with ET Canada. \u201cYou know, there\u2019s a lot to be said about that. So, we\u2019re not in each other\u2019s face all the time. He\u2019s not in the business, so we have different interests, but yet we have the things we love to do together. So it was meant to be, I think. He was the one I was supposed to have and vice versa.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sweet couple has been married since 1966. Parton first met Dean when she was 18 and he was 21. Like any relationship, they had a few highs and lows. However, the singer-songwriter revealed a good laugh keeps the spark alive. \u201cWe both have a warped sense of humor. And I think humor, honestly, is one of the best things when you\u2019re married like that. Even if you have a problem, if you have a great sense of humor, if you say something you can\u2019t take back [you] usually have some crazy way of getting out of it,\u201d Parton noted, according to the media outlet.<\/p>\n

The \u201cJolene\u201d songstress admitted the pair rarely get into fights and try to keep the peace.\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019ve never had, you know, serious arguments to say bad things to each other we have to take back,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

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