Dolly Parton's secret to her successful marriage with husband Carl Dean

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Dolly Parton is notoriously private when it comes to her personal life but over the years has given insights into the secret behind her decades-long marriage.MORE: Dolly Parton and Kelsea Ballerini's fans all notice the same things from their ACM performanceThe country superstar has been married to Carl Dean since 1966 and recently put one of the many reasons it's a success down to their star signs."We are good friends, we respect each other.

We like each other. And I'm a Capricorn and he is a Cancer and, if you follow that kind of stuff, [they] are compatible suns," she told Access Hollywood.VIDEO: Dolly Parton makes heartfelt and urgent plea"I stay gone a lot so we aren’t in each other's face a lot, but more than anything we are good friends."MORE: Inside ACM Awards host Dolly Parton's 56-year marriage to husband she met at 18MORE: Dolly Parton's fans react as she bows out of the Rock and Roll Hall of FameShe continued: "We [Dolly Parton & Carl Dean] met fifty seven years ago.

Fell in love when we met, it was really a strong bond. And we are still together. But we have a similar sense of humor, we are both funny [although] our sense of humors [can] differ, but we are very entertaining let’s put it that way.

We are both able to find the humor in anything or make some humor for whatever it is." Dolly Parton is incredibly private when it comes to her marriage Dolly and Carl Dean have enjoyed over 55 years of wedded bliss.