{"id":5417,"date":"2023-11-03T15:09:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T15:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/strongermarriages\/?p=5417"},"modified":"2023-11-14T13:48:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T13:48:49","slug":"garth-brooks-and-trisha-yearwood-were-inspired-by-jimmy-carter-to-bicker-for-healthy-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/strongermarriages\/2023\/11\/garth-brooks-and-trisha-yearwood-were-inspired-by-jimmy-carter-to-bicker-for-healthy-marriage.html","title":{"rendered":"Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood Were &#8216;Inspired&#8217; by Jimmy Carter to Bicker For a Healthy Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5498\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5498\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5498\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/413\/2023\/11\/garth-brooks-trisha-yearwood-02_credit-featureflash-photo-agency-shutterstock_Inset-public-domain-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Featureflash Photo Agency \/ Shutterstock.com | Inset: Public Domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks recently said that former President Carter and his wife Rosalynn have \u201cinspired\u201d them in significant and small ways, including how they \u201cbicker\u201d in their marriage. Brooks told <em>People Magazine, <\/em>\u201cThey\u2019ve inspired us in a lot of ways, in the ways you expect: humanity, humbleness, work ethic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cBut they\u2019ve also inspired us by their example as husband and wife. We worked beside them for the last 15 years, and you notice right away they bicker back and forth about the right way to do things. That kind of works for us, too!\u201d Yearwood and Brooks have been married since 2005, and former President Carter and Rosalynn tied the knot in 1946.<\/p>\n<p>The country power couple led the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project in Charlotte, North Carolina, a collaboration with Habitat for Humanity that has built more than 4,000 homes in 14 countries with more than 100,000 volunteers since it was founded in 1984. Yearwood told <em>People Magazine, <\/em>\u201cTo whom much is given, much is expected. We\u2019ll never fill the Carters\u2019 shoes, but we\u2019re doing the best we can.\u201d She said the couple \u201cfell in love\u201d with the work Habitat for Humanity does and with the Carters in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2007.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c_8vGmH-o0A?si=39pE_HILR-yLjdiW\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>She continued, \u201cWe knew we loved the Carters, and we fell more in love with them just getting a chance to work alongside them. We love what Habitat for Humanity is about: spreading love. It\u2019s about creating community.\u201d In 2018, the couple told Fox News Digital that Habitat for Humanity is the most \u201crewarding\u201d work they\u2019ve ever done. Yearwood said, \u201cThere are so many great organizations and ways for you to give back to your community. But actually getting inside the new home, getting your hands dirty, getting in there, that\u2019s the most rewarding thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the Carters\u2019 grandson, Josh Carter, told <em>People<\/em> they are in the \u201cfinal chapter\u201d of their lives, and Jimmy, who served as the 39th president, entered hospice in February.\u00a0He added, \u201cThey lived their lives to the fullest.\u201d The Carter Center said in February that the former president had decided to \u201cspend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention\u201d after a series of short hospital stays. \u201cHe has the full support of his family and his medical team. The Carter family asks for privacy during this time and is grateful for the concern shown by his many admirers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His grandson added, \u201cHe\u2019s still fully Jimmy Carter. He\u2019s just tired. I mean, he\u2019s almost 99 years old, but he fully understands [how many well wishes he\u2019s received] and has felt the love.\u201d Habitat for Humanity\u00a0CEO Jonathan Reckford\u00a0told People he\u2019s grateful to have Brooks and Yearwood to carry on the Carters\u2019 \u201camazing legacy.\u201d He said, \u201cGarth and Trisha bring attention to the great need for affordable housing. They represent the hope and the joy of building community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks recently said that former President Carter and his wife Rosalynn have \u201cinspired\u201d them in significant and small ways, including how they \u201cbicker\u201d in their marriage. Brooks told People Magazine, \u201cThey\u2019ve inspired us in a lot of ways, in the ways you expect: humanity, humbleness, work ethic.\u201d He continued, \u201cBut they\u2019ve&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":5498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,23],"tags":[501,653,498],"class_list":["post-5417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","category-relationships","tag-garth-brooks","tag-healthy-marriage","tag-trisha-yearwood"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood Were &#039;Inspired&#039; by Jimmy Carter to Bicker For a Healthy Marriage<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a recent interview with &quot;People Magazine,&quot; 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