How Dolly Parton Keeps Romance With Husband Carl Alive After 56 Years

A recipe for love. Dolly Parton is aware of the key to maintaining the romance alive with husband Carl Thomas Dean after 56 years of marriage.

“You discover little methods,” the 76-year-old nation celebrity completely informed Us Weekly on Wednesday, January 26, whereas selling her new Dolly Parton x Duncan Hines line forward of its March launch. “Like final yr on his birthday, I dressed up in my Playboy bunny go well with, made him breakfast and [ran] round in that for a short while.”

“, most individuals can preserve a marriage [going strong] in case you make a bit effort,” the “Jolene” songstress mentioned. “Some individuals simply get slouching and lazy and about stuff that ain’t necessary, like leaving the bathroom seat up. And if that’s the worst factor you’ve to fret about, you’re already in hassle.”

Parton and Dean, 79, tied the knot in 1966. Whereas Parton mentioned that “feeding him good” usually retains her husband, finally she and Dean simply have a “good time” collectively.

“We’re the proper companions,” the 9 to five star informed Us. “We each have nice humorousness. … We’re in a position to, like, clear up any issues and any scenario, making a joke about it and never letting it get too heavy, however we respect one another and we like one another. We lucked up, let’s put it that means.”

The “Right here You Come Once more” singer likes to have a good time her decades-long love story on Valentine’s Day by carrying “some little enjoyable” outfit and showering Dean in presents. “I at all times put on some heart-shaped one thing and I at all times get him a number of Valentine’s playing cards,” Parton revealed. “, trigger while you begin on the lookout for playing cards, you discover so many and also you need ’em all.”

The Grammy winner added that she at all times seems to be out for sweetheart candies round February 14, telling Us, “All through the day, I’ll throw him a special one.”

Even when it’s not Valentine’s Day, the Songteller writer demonstrates her love for Dean and their mates within the kitchen.

“Once I’m within the kitchen, I’m in a position to be cooking something,” she mentioned, including that — “whether or not or not it’s fried hen or hen and dumplings” — she has a delicate spot for traditional Southern dishes. And naturally, you at all times should have a superb cake or one thing candy to finish a superb meal.”

Impressed by her love of Southern cooking, the Metal Magnolias star is teaming up with Duncan Hines to launch her very personal Dolly Parton x Duncan Hines line of cake mixes and frostings in March. Whereas the baking assortment kits — which characteristic flavors like banana pudding and coconut cake — are at present bought out, Parton reveals off her prowess within the kitchen as typically as she will.

“I’m the higher cook dinner, however [Carl] truly can cook dinner fairly good,” the philanthropist informed Us, including that “each every now and then” she’ll let her husband help. “I’ve been gone a lot [that] he needed to [learn to] cook dinner, however he truly does fairly good. He is aware of the right way to cook dinner the issues he likes, however he loves my cooking higher.

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