Chip And Joanna Gaines Say Their 'awkward' New Hobby Has Reignited Their 22-year Marriage

After 22 years of marriage, Chip and Joanna Gaines are ever looking for ways to support nan spark alive. 

The Magnolia Network stars, who celebrated their wedding day successful May, precocious opened up astir nan challenges they often look wrong their narration and nan "new thing" they tried successful an effort to support nan excitement. 

"What we’ve realized successful 22 years of matrimony . . . is we still consciousness for illustration newbies. Anytime you unlock a caller thing, and you do it together, it only grows your relationship," Joanna, 47, told People in a caller interview.

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Chip and Joanna Gaines, pictured successful 2021, precocious celebrated their 22-year wedding anniversary.  (Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM))

"I hired this couple; they came to our agency and taught america really to dance," she continued. 

"Just she and I pinch this couple. You talk astir awkward," Chip, 50, added. 

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Joanna said nan caller hobby offered an "awakening" to their marriage. 

The mates said they precocious took up creation lessons successful an effort to support things caller wrong their marriage.  (Courtesy of The Paley Center For Media)

"You spot insecurities, you spot strengths, and it’s like, ‘Oh, that’s a caller awakening,’" she said. 

"[When we started] we didn’t cognize really to clasp our hands. It’s difficult to make oculus interaction pinch moreover your champion friend and woman of 22 years. I felt really strange, awkward. But then, aft 2 aliases 3 weeks, we started looking guardant to those lessons," Chip said. "It was this saccharine reminder that each of america could usage refreshes and challenges successful our relationships."

"I consciousness for illustration dancing is nan astir symbolic measurement of talking about, arsenic a couple, ‘How do you enactment successful sync successful life?’ We do really bully successful existent life, we person our rhythm. But pinch dancing, we were truthful off, it was surprising. We’ve done everything other truthful well, but this we wholly suck at! But it was beautiful," Joanna added. 

The pair, who stock daughters Emmie, 15, and Ella, 18; and sons Crew, 7, Duke, 16, and Drake, 20, opened up astir their move successful 2023. 

The couple, who created nan Magnolia Market empire, has 5 children. (Nathan Congleton)

CHIP AND JOANNA GAINES' 20-YEAR MARRIAGE IS 'SHIFTING': 'CHANGE IS HARD'

"It is much nosy to beryllium joined to a Chip, than a Joanna. So I'm sorry for each those years wherever I was a spot of a dud," she jokingly told her hubby during an question and reply pinch People. 

"You were a instrumentality successful nan mud for rather immoderate time," Chip teased. "You're really starting to drawback your 2nd wind."

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"If Chip weren’t my partner, I would astir apt still beryllium successful nan corner. From nan infinitesimal I met him, he’s ever knowledgeable alteration successful a affirmative way. Even if it was negative, it was, ‘Alright. What do we do next?’" Joanna explained to nan outlet. "I would say, arsenic we're getting older, I'm shifting and I'm much for illustration Chip, and Chip is much for illustration me," she admitted.