Country music has always had its fair share of songs about infidelity and cheating, but that doesn’t mean that country singers can’t have long, happy marriages away from the spotlight.
While country’s shortest and most volatile marriages generate a lot of coverage, there are actually quite a few very happy, decades-long marriages in country music.
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Some of the happiest country music marriages are between fellow artists, including Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani, Little Big Town singers Karen Fairchild and Jimi Westbrook and more.
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On the other hand, quite a few of country music’s happiest and longest-lasting marriages include a spouse who — though mostly unknown to the fans — is actually the secret power behind the throne.
Thomas Rhett and his wife, Lauren, are a perfect example of that, as she not only inspires many of his songs, but also weighs in on the others.
Some of the country music couples in the list below have been married just a few years, and some have been together for decades. But all of the country stars’ marriages that made the list have this much in common: they seem to be blissfully happy unions.
Read on to discover the happiest marriages in country music, and keep scrolling the pictures to see country music’s shortest marriages.
PICTURES: The Happiest Marriages in Country Music
Country music has more than its fair share of songs about heartache and cheating, but that doesn’t mean country stars can’t have happy, long-term marriages. These country stars have found out how to make love last.
Gallery Credit: Sterling Whitaker
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See which country couples have been married the longest. At No. 1 it’s a couple who have been married for nearly 60 years!
Gallery Credit: Billy Dukes
