The Jolene singer has been married since 1966
The 78-year-old's husband, 81, prefers to keep himself out of the spotlight and hasn't been pictured publicly with Dolly for decades. But keeping their relationship out of the limelight isn't the reason for their longstanding marriage.According to Dolly, they've lasted almost six decades because they don't spend every waking minute together.. "And I think if you just kind of stay together so much, you just nitpick every little thing and notice all that.
She added: "Going down and get some food or I'll make a picnic and we go down to the river and have a picnic and just kind of ride around and do our little things."Dolly was only 18 when she first met Carl, who was 21 at the time, outside their local laundromat in Nashville on the first day she moved to Music City in 1964.
It was shortly after their wedding Carl made it clear to Dolly, that he had no desire to follow her into the public eye."He went to one thing with me early on when we first married to a BMI Song of the Year," she said on her Apple Music radio show "Carl has never been in the limelight and all, never wanted to be in it," she added. "He don't like it."In 2016, the pair marked their 50th wedding anniversary in a very special way as they decided to get married for a second time. "We're going to get married again!" Dolly gushed to
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