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Joanna Gaines opened up about her marriage to her husband Chip, which has lasted for nearly two decades.The star shared her thoughts  in an essay for the fall issue of Magnolia Journal, which is set to be released on Friday.The 44-year-old reality television personality discussed several aspects of her relationship with her 47-year-old husband and noted that their romance had changed and grown over time. Being honest: Joanna Gaines opened up about her marriage to her husband Chip in an essay for the fall issue of Magnolia Journal , which is set to be released on Friday; they are seen in 2017The happy couple previously collaborated on and costarred in the HGTV series Fixer Upper, which ran from 2013 until 2018.During the essay, Joanna noted that she and her husband had gone through many hardships over the course of their relationship.'In our 20 years of marriage, Chip and I have experienced a little bit of all of it...Times when all hope felt lost and circumstances were out of our control.

Chip and Joanna Gaines will celebrate 20 years of wedded bliss in May. Like most married couples, Chip admitted there have been ebbs and flows in their relationship, but this particular milestone made him reminisce on how quickly time passed by. In an essay for the summer issue of their Magnolia Journal, Chip recalled proposing to Joanna and buying their first house "just yesterday." He wrote, "All the old folks in our lives warned us that these years with young kids and big dreams would go by fast.That one day we’d look back and wonder where the time went.They were right." "We've had to fight like hell for our family and learn to hold loosely what we can't control.

Joanna and Chip Gaines have gone through plenty of great and not-so-great times in their two decades together, and they're reflecting on those days as they approach their 20th anniversary. In a new essay Chip penned for the upcoming issue of Magnolia Journal, the 48-year-old opened up about weathering all sorts of storms with his partner in business and life. "Marriage is interesting that way," Chip wrote.

Magnolia Network star Joanna Gaines has opened up on recent hard times, sharing with fans how she "nurtured" herself back from a place of "unbalance".MORE: Magnolia Network star Joanna Gaines shares adorable family video that has fans saying the same thingThe mom-of-five wrote a new essay for the Spring issue of Magnolia Journal, the quarterly lifestyle magazine she publishes with her husband, Chip, and shared that she found herself in a rough patch in late 2021, "unbalanced by how much I was pouring out without being poured into in the ways I really needed."WATCH: Magnolia Network star Joanna Gaines shares adorable family video that has fans saying the same thing"I was learning that a well that's only ever knee-deep can't outlast a drought and that I had to figure out what it was that would pull me out of the grind and give me renewed perspective," she shared.The 43-year-old continued that she "considered what I'm already drawn to, what I already know wakes me up and brings me life — nature, the garden, being in my kitchen, and the peace that meets me there — and I leaned in".MORE: Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's lavish Nashville home could rival a palaceHowever, although her family "joked that I'd gone a little extreme" she found comfort and solace in the action of reading, gardening and canning "just about anything" and that it left her, for the first time in a long time, feeling "full, truly full"."And at the end of those days, I was bursting with so much more to give. And really, that's all that I was after." she concluded.

Chip and Joanna Gaines found success with their home improvement show Fixer Upper and now they are overseeing their own network Magnolia as they together raise five children.But with their popularity has come criticism that is sometimes hard to take.'It didn't take us long to realize that being a part of this new reality also meant being a part of the news cycle,' said Joanna in the fall issue of Magnolia Journal.

Joanna Gaines is admitting that she’s been stung by harsh words from online haters, and reveals how she deals with it.

Joanna Gaines revealed how watching the sunset with her father Jerry Stevens changed her priorities about life.The 42-year-old HGTV star wrote about the experience in the Magnolia Journal, according to Peoplewhich shares the publication's parent company.She described the way she gave up a chance to watch the sun go down with Jerry before the pandemic - only for the lockdowns to then keep them apart for months.

Joanna Gaines revealed that she was initially skeptical about her and husband Chip’s iconic farmhouse when they first laid eyes on it. The mom of five, 42, penned a lengthy essay about how the couple first decided to move into the Waco, Texas home for the new issue of her Magnolia Journal.

Joanna Gaines admits she initially thought acquiring the family's farmhouse, where they now live, would be a disaster.'It was a no for me right from the start,' Joanna said in her lifestyle publication, Magnolia Journal. 'There was no way we were leaving our comfortable finished family home to potentially go broke fixing up a farmhouse and all the uncertainties it came with.'The Fixer Upper star, 42, said she was skeptical after her husband Chip, 45, first raised the idea of purchasing the 'new prospect' in Waco, Texas, which sits on a sprawling 40 acres of land.

Turns out sparks weren't flying when Joanna Gaines went on her first date with future husband Chip.'It wasn't love at first sight for Chip and me,' Joanna, 42, wrote in an essay for the Magnolia Journal,obtained byPeople.Talkative, ambitious, and a risk-taker, Joanna confessed Chip wasn't exactly her type.