Even though Dolly Parton is 78, the beloved singer has no plans to slow down. Her amazing career is still very much active to this day, and outside of the spotlight, she lives a quiet and calm life with her husband Carl.

Now, Dolly Parton has shared a new never-seen-before picture of the two — and one specific detail in it has fans losing it.Dolly Parton has been around music all her life, and nothing seems to stop her from continuing to do what she loves the most.
n 1964, Dolly met Carl Dean outside the Wishy Washy Laundromat in Nashville, Tennessee. At the time, Dolly was 18 and Carl was 21. Straight away, Carl realized there was something very special about the young lady.

“My first thought was, ‘I’m gonna marry that girl,’” Dean said in a statement of the moment they met, as quoted by Entertainment Tonight.“My second thought was, ‘Lord she’s good lookin.’’’ And that was the day my life began. I wouldn’t trade the last 50 years for nothing on this earth.”

Dean was sitting in his pickup truck as he saw Dolly and “hollered” at her, as she recalled in an interview with the NY Times in 1976.However, she declined a date with him. Instead, she invited him over when she was babysitting her nephew just days after. It was the start of a love story that never ended.“He came up every day that week and we sat out on the porch. I wouldn’t even take him in the house,” she said.

“Then my aunt got a day off, and she could keep the kid and that was my first chance to go anywhere with Carl and he drove me straight to his folks’ house and introduced me to his mother and daddy. ‘Cause he said he knew right the minute he saw me that that’s the one he wanted.”

Left Tennessee to get married
In May 1966, Dolly Parton and Carl Dean married in a private ceremony in Ringgold, Georgia.Her record label actually wanted them to wait to get married since she had a career to think about. But Dean and Dolly didn’t want to wait, and as a result, they decided to tie the knot in Georgia so that the local press in Tennessee wouldn’t write about it.The only ones in attendance were Dolly, Carl, and her mother.

“My mother made me a little white dress and a little bouquet and a little Bible,” Dolly recalled. “But I said, ‘I can’t get married in a courthouse because I’ll never feel married.’ So we found a little Baptist church in town, and went up to Pastor Don Duvall and said, ‘Would you marry us?’ We got pictures on the steps right outside the church.”Ever since then, Dolly and Carl have been deeply in love. However, he never walks the red carpet with her at award shows or charity events: the only time was when his wife received her first songwriting award at 20-years of age.

“After the dinner, we walked back out, and they brought us our car — I don’t even remember what we were driving then — and we got in it and headed for home,” Parton recalled, as quoted by The Boot. “Carl turned to me and said, ‘Dolly, I want you to have everything you want, and I’m happy for you, but don’t you ever ask me to go to another one of them dang things again!’”

In 2016, the couple celebrated their 50th anniversary. To celebrate it, they decided to renew their vows.“That was sweet,” Dolly Patron told BBC.

“There was no pressure at all. We had our own little ceremony in a little chapel on our property, then we went in our little RV down to Ringgold, Georgia, and spent the night where we had married 50 years before. We took some beautiful pictures and got all dressed up. It was fun really.”“We’ve always been good buddies. We have a lot of fun and a lot of respect for one another. It was his first marriage and mine and we never thought we’d ever want to do that again. Why bother?”