Yahoo Lifestyle Gwen Stefani Calls Her Relationship with Blake Shelton a "Miracle"
Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton have become the source of couple goals for many. The pop-punk-country duo have been together for nine years and married for three, and in that time they’ve recorded a handful of songs together and made more precious public appearances than we can count. It might come as a bit of a shock then that, according to Gwen, the pair almost didn’t work out.
In an interview with PEOPLE, Gwen revealed that in the early days of their relationship, it felt like the odds were stacked against them.
"We had just met, and it was chaos,” she says. "Both of our lives were in complete turmoil, all over the ground. Nothing could save us at that point. There was a point where I was like, 'I can't even talk to you. This is insane. I already have enough problems. This is not happening anymore. We're not going to text or nothing.'"
Blake—smitten with Gwen—wasn’t having it though.
"I think he really wanted to impress me, because he doesn't really write songs as much as he used to," Gwen admits. "And I love writing songs. That's everything to me. If I want to feel like I have any kind of purpose or any kind of value or anything, it's about writing a song. That's where I get my fulfillment."
So when Blake began writing "Go Ahead and Break My Heart" for him and Gwen to sing together, she couldn’t help but let down her guard.
"He sent it to me, and it was a half-written song," Gwen reveals. "He was like, 'Help me finish this.' So I wrote him the verse back—the second verse on the song—and it's just over text. That was our first song that we ever wrote together. We were never even in the same room, but we were writing a song to each other."
Since then, Gwen and Blake have worked on "You Make It Feel Like Christmas," "Nobody But You," "Happy Anywhere," and, most recently, "Purple Irises." As it seems, writing and singing together is their secret to success.
"Something that I wanted since I was a little girl is to be married and have this love that I saw my parents have and have babies," Gwen shares. "That dream was completely ruined; it was crushed, and I had to figure out how I was going to move forward and make a new dream—and God putting Blake in my life was just that miracle."
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