Meghan Trainor is singing her own praises when it comes to therapy and marriage counseling.
“I’m in heavy therapy. I was in marriage counseling while doing this album [Toy With Me], which is why I wrote ‘Potential.’ That was right after a marriage therapy session,” Trainor, 32, exclusively shared in Us Weekly’s latest cover story. “We’re so good now that I recommend it to everyone. But that’s where having the young kids, we learned, one through five, your marriage gets pushed to the side, and then you’re like, ‘Why are we fighting? We’re on the same team.’”
Trainor and husband Daryl Sabara have been married since December 2018. The couple share sons Riley, 5 and Barry, 2. On January 18, they welcomed daughter Mikey Moon via surrogate.
According to Trainor, who launches her upcoming Get In Girl Tour on June 12, counseling proved to be necessary before welcoming their third child.
“That was, like, really hard on us emotionally,” the singer shared. “We started marriage counseling because we realized when we were even having little, tiny arguments, we were living in full different realities. We would even say in our fights, ‘Hey, we’re not even fighting about the same thing.’”
Trainor is the first to admit that she and her husband were the couple who laughed at people who said marriage was hard.
“We never understood what they’re talking about,” she continued. “But when you have little kids, every single thing, everything, is a decision.”
Trainor recalled her counselor promising the singer and her husband that when they break through, it’ll be the greatest love that they’ve ever felt. She’s happy to report the professional was right.
“Now we can look at each other and read each other’s minds,” she explained. “We never bicker anymore, and we’re always there for each other on a different level.”
No matter how busy life gets — and it’s a jam-packed time for Trainor as she prepares for her tour and releases Toy With Me on Friday, April 24 — there are some relationship habits she cannot give up.
“We never go to bed upset, and we always talk it out, even when he really doesn’t want to,” Trainor said about her marriage to Sabara, 33. “We have unspoken rules. Communication is key. You just can’t hold anything in because it builds resentment, and resentment is a relationship killer.”
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