When they have a chance to unwind they like to go on short RV adventures. “I love to read, I love to cook, I love to be with my husband. I put on my little comfy clothes…I call them my baby clothes…and we just relax.”
The “Jolene” singer added that when they go on vacation they keep it short because Dean likes to be home. “He knows I’m just the opposite. I can’t go enough places. I can’t do enough things. He loves that. He’s independent. He doesn’t need me in his face, and it’s the same with me,” Dolly said. “But when we’re together, we have enough things in common that it works. We love the simple life. We can be calm and just have a good time.”
Dolly Parton and Carl Dean never had children, but it wasn’t because they didn’t want them. Dolly told The Guardian in 2014 that the pair had talked about having children shortly after they married, even picking out a name for a baby girl.
“If we’d had a girl, she was gonna be called Carla…Anyway, we talked about it, and we dreamed it, but it wasn’t meant to be,” Dolly said.
In a 2017 interview with TODAY, Dolly addressed the topic again, saying: “God has a plan for everything. I think it probably was his plan for me not to have kids so everybody’s kids could be mine. And they are now.”