{"id":8923,"date":"2025-04-25T18:45:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T18:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/strongermarriages\/?p=8923"},"modified":"2025-04-25T18:45:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T18:45:33","slug":"gwen-stefani-credits-third-party-as-key-to-her-marriages-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/strongermarriages\/2025\/04\/gwen-stefani-credits-third-party-as-key-to-her-marriages-success.html","title":{"rendered":"Gwen Stefani Credits \u201cthird party\u201d as Key to Her Marriage\u2019s Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8926\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8926\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8926\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/413\/2025\/04\/Gwen-and-Blake_credit-Left-Joe-Seer-Shutterstock-Right-The-Drew-Barrymore-Show-YouTube.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8926\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Joe Seer \/ Shutterstock.com | Right: The Drew Barrymore Show \/ YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gwen Stefani recently appeared on \u201cThe Drew Barrymore\u201d show where she spoke about her marriage to Blake Shelton. The former \u201cThe Voice\u201d host shared her preference for laid back dates and described a cozy date night in with her husband. \u201cI have the dogs right here; we have two couches \u2026 Blake\u2019s on that couch and we\u2019re like \u2018Hi!\u2019 I would sit next to him, but he\u2019s gigantic and we don\u2019t fit anywhere,\u201d she shared. She also told Barrymore what makes their marriage work. \u201cBest advice would probably be, make sure you have a third party,\u201d she said. Stefani pointed upward to indicate she was referring to God.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/music\/gwen-stefani-blake-shelton-relationship-timeline\/#:~:text=November%202015:%20Gwen%20Stefani%20and%20Blake%20Shelton%20begin%20dating&amp;text=A%20source%20confirmed%20exclusively%20to,people%2C%22%20added%20the%20source.\">couple<\/a> first met in 2014 when Stefani signed up to be a judge on \u201cThe Voice.\u201d At the time, both were married to other people, with Stefani having been married to rocker Gavin Rossdale since 2002. The pair had three sons, but by August of 2015, they announced that they were separating. Shelton was married to Miranda Lambert at the time, but the two split in July of 2015. Stefani previously shared that she was \u201cshocked\u201d when Shelton privately shared the news of his divorce to her when her own marriage was falling apart. \u201cI didn&#8217;t want anyone to know what was going on with me \u2026 I had this huge weight on me and nobody but my parents and obviously everybody involved knew\u2026It was during that time, he came up to my chair \u2026 I never saw him look so upset. So then I was like, &#8216;I gotta talk to you,\u2019\u201d recalled Stefani. She later said it was \u201cunbelievable that God would put us in a position to have each other at that moment, in the same exact moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pair officially began dating late 2015 after their divorces were finalized. In 2020, Stefani had her previous marriage annulled so that the two could be married by the Catholic church in 2021. The pair has turned their life from focusing on their careers to raising their family together, with Shelton saying he takes his role as a stepparent very seriously, even leaving \u201cThe Voice\u201d after 12 years. \u201cIf I walked away from my career at this time, the only thing that I run the risk of is having regrets that I&#8217;m missing out on some more important things in life,\u201d he told <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/country\/blake-shelton-putting-family-first-barmageddon-cover-story\/\"><em>People<\/em>.<\/a> \u201cFor now, that&#8217;s our kids. This isn&#8217;t about me anymore and never will be again. Even though I&#8217;m a stepparent, I take that job very seriously,\u201d he said. \u201cThe kids see me as a very important person in their life. [When they ask,] &#8216;Why isn&#8217;t Blake here?&#8217; I take that stuff to heart. I&#8217;ve made plenty of money, but you can&#8217;t buy time back. I don&#8217;t want any regrets.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gwen Stefani recently appeared on \u201cThe Drew Barrymore\u201d show where she spoke about her marriage to Blake Shelton. The former \u201cThe Voice\u201d host shared her preference for laid back dates and described a cozy date night in with her husband. \u201cI have the dogs right here; we have two couches \u2026 Blake\u2019s on that couch&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":516,"featured_media":8926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gwen Stefani Credits \u201cthird party\u201d as Key to Her Marriage\u2019s Success<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gwen Stefani says God is the key to her marriage with Blake Shelton\u2014and shares what makes their cozy home life work so well.\" \/>\n<meta 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