Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton's Best and Worst Relationship Highlights

01 of 14

ON BALANCING EACH OTHER OUT

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"I'm not sunshine and roses. Blake's the happiest person on the planet. He pulls me out of my darkness ... Literally, everything is the best about being married."
– Lambert, January 2015

02 of 14

ON MEETING SHELTON WHEN HE WAS ALREADY MARRIED

"I knew he was married. I knew better, like, this is off-limits ... I didn't know what to do with it, it was, like, my first duet with some other country star, and I didn't know if it was just initial butterflies because of that. I don't know what it was. It was just this draw to each other."
– Lambert, August 2011

03 of 14

ON THE PRESSURES OF CELEBRITY

"Blake and I are nothing like Elvis and Priscilla [Presley], obviously, but with anyone who reaches that level of celebrity, it creates a pull on the couple. You are being pulled apart. Literally. Blake's person is pulling him that way, and my person is pulling me this way. You get to that point where you're both saying, 'Where is our time? We need us time.'"
– Lambert, April 2014

04 of 14

ON SHARING VICES

"There's never been a time when she's sat me down and said, 'Hey, you're drinking too much.' She has sat me down and said, 'I just don't know why you won't have a drink with me.'"
– Shelton, November 2011

05 of 14

ON SEPARATING HOME AND WORK LIFE

"We live in the middle of nowhere and have a totally different life away from work. We do the things we sing about in our songs – we go four-wheeling, we back-road, we fish, we eat at my mother-in-law's at least twice a week."
– Lambert, April 2014

06 of 14

ON THE POSSIBILITY OF STARTING A FAMILY

"That's the one thing I really want to plan the right way, because I don't want to have children and raise them on a plane or a bus. Right now, we're both at our peak and having a blast, and I don't think either one of us are thinking about changing a thing."
– Lambert, 2012
"When I see my mom and dad with their grandkids and that relationship down the road, that's what I'm looking forward to more than anything: that family and those generations and being on that end of things."
– Shelton, July 2011

07 of 14

ON TEASING EACH OTHER

"Blake gets on my nerves every day. There'd be so much missing if he wasn't there. He adds stability and comfort."
– Lambert, 2012
"I'm always pestering her. I just cannot get enough because she gets irritated so quickly."
– Shelton, June 2013

08 of 14

ON BEING INDIVIDUALS

KEEP IT AMICABLE — Jim Spellman/WireImage

"We both have our own things. We're proud of each other, but we are very much Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert. Thank goodness our names don't make a celebrity name – I mean 'Bliranda'? That's not pretty!"
– Lambert, April 2014

09 of 14

ON THEIR ROMANTIC IDOLS

"It's not easy when everyone is trying to tear you down, but you make a commitment and you stick to it. In other parts of the entertainment world, it sometimes seems like marriage is so disposable. But country has some enduring marriages – Johnny and June, George and Nancy, Faith and Tim. I'm thankful we have those role models. I feel like our peers are rooting for us. They're holding us up."
– Lambert, April 2014

10 of 14

ON STAYING OPEN & HONEST

"[I tell Miranda], 'I have nothing to hide from you.' That's always been our policy: 'Here's my phone. Go through it.' That's really the kind of trust we have, there are no secrets. [I'll say], 'Go dig through my drawers or my computer if you feel like you need to.' And that's been a really good thing because I don't want her to ever have any doubts."
– Shelton, May 2013

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ON SPENDING TIME APART

"Spending time apart because of work has always been part of our relationship, so we're fine with it. This is the first anniversary we've spent apart, but we knew it was coming with everything going on. We'll celebrate us when we're together."
– Lambert, May 2014

12 of 14

ON THE FEELING OF BEING REUNITED

"I hadn't seen him in 11 days. He was just so happy when I got here. It was like [making an angels-singing voice], 'Ahh, you're here.' When I go to the The Voice set and everyone says, 'Blake's been talking about you so much,' it just makes me feel special."
– Lambert, January 2011

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ON SHELTON'S FIRST MARRIAGE

"I just really don't think I was ready to be a husband. And maybe I never will be."
– Shelton, 2007

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ON LAMBERT'S DEDICATION TO SEEING EACH OTHER

"She does that for me way more than I've ever done that for her. I'll be the first one to admit that, because I'm old and I'm more apt to give up and she won't. I'm just a guy about it, I guess. She's always been the one to go through hell to make sure we spend time together."
– Shelton, 2012