Dolly Parton Shares One Rule That Has Led To Her Successful 56-Year Marriage With Carl Dean

hollywoodlife.com:

Dolly Parton has found success on the stage, on the screen, and soon – with her new Baking Collection with Duncan Hines – she’s going to give Betty Crocker a run for her money.

It seems that everything Dolly touches turns to gold, and her marriage is no exception. Dolly and her husband, Carl Thomas Dean, will celebrate their 56th anniversary in 2022 – so what’s the secret ingredient to their lasting relationship? “You don’t want to start fighting,” Dolly says while speaking EXCLUSIVELY with HollywoodLife about her Duncan Hines partnership. “We made a rule years ago that we’d never argue because once you start that, it can become a habit, and that just goes on.” “So, if there are times that things get a little tense, or we get a little sideways here and there, we just kind of walk off and come back later and make some joke,” Dolly tells HollywoodLife. “‘Well, we thought love was going be like this, all trust and bliss.’ And, sometimes, it can be other things as well.” Dolly also said another good thing about her and Carl is that they both have “a great sense of humor,” and their lovers’ quarrels never get too heavy. “We could put it back in place without we could make the point, but to get on with it and say, ‘Hey, we’re not going to fight over that.'” It helps that, like any good duet, both Dolly and Carl are in tune with each other. “We’re good friends,” she says. “We have a good time.

We have a lot of respect for each other, but we’re just good partners. We are very compatible — we both like the temperature the same way in the house.

There’s a lot of things that other couples fight over, like the air conditioner or the heat, or any of that kind of stuff. We never did because we’re just very compatible in how we live,