Pink Opened Up About Her Marriage To Carey Hart And Said Couples Therapy Is The "Only Reason" They're Still Together
"Without [a therapist] translating for me for the last 18 years, we would not be together."
In an Instagram live conversation with her therapist over the weekend, Pink opened up about her relationship with husband of 14 years Carey Hart, admitting that couples therapy is the "only reason" they're still together.
The couple had rocky beginnings, originally separating in 2003, getting married in 2006, separating again in 2008, and confirming they were back together in 2010.
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The following year, Pink gave birth to their first child, Willow.
The pair have been very open about their ups and downs, with Pink revealing to Ellen last year that she was so mad at Carey on Thanksgiving in 2003 that she slashed the tires on his car, and ended up having to get 13 stitches.
"He has a raised F-250 and those tires are very thick, thank you very much," she said. "And the second one, I lost a little steam and I hit the metal part and my hand just went straight down the knife."
Well, now Pink has revealed that she and Carey work through their differences in couples therapy, although she did admit she gets "a lot of shit" when she tells people about it.
"It's the only reason that we're still together," she said during an Instagram live. "I think partners, after a long time — I can't say it's a man and woman thing, I think it's a partner thing, a spouse thing — you just speak two different languages."
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She went on to reiterate that without their therapist "translating" for each other throughout the course of their relationship, they "would not be together".
"We are not taught as kids how to have relationships, how to get along with people," Pink said. "I mean, what's happening in our country right now is a perfect example of that. We don't know how to love each other, we don't know how to get along, we don't know how to communicate."
She went on to recall a moment during a therapy session where she was complaining that Carey wasn't "hearing her emotionally".
"I had been complaining about him for years about how he's just not present, he's not here, he doesn't get it, he's not hearing me emotionally, he's not even trying to understand my language," she explained. "And [the therapist] was like, 'OK, everybody shut up, stand up, put your hands on each other's hearts and just look into each other's eyes.'"
"Then this man, that I had been saying won't show up for me, his feet were planted in that earth, his hand was on my heart and his eyes were looking into my soul and guess what I did? I started giggling and I looked away," she went on.
"In that moment I realised that I was a little bit full of shit," Pink said. "I was the one here that was just talking and there have been many of those times."
On the couples' 14th wedding anniversary this past January, Pink posted a tribute to Carey on Instagram, saying their relationship "isn't perfect, but I'm grateful it's ours".
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"Thank you for walking in front of me, beside me, and right behind me at times," she wrote at the time.