Joanna Gaines recalls knowing she would marry Chip 'right off the bat' during their first date
24.03.2023 - 01:07
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Chip and Joanna Gaines are reminiscing about the early days of their relationship. The couple recently spoke to People in celebration of their 20th wedding anniversary, telling the story of how they met. Chip explained that seeing Joanna in a commercial for her dad's auto shop in Waco, Texas, led him to start "hanging out at her dad's place of business incessantly." Joanna joked he kept finding something wrong with his car that needed to be fixed.
After a week of talking outside the auto shop, Joanna agreed to go on a date. "Right off the bat, you were smitten," Chip told Joanna. "Starstruck. Right off the bat," Joanna explained.
"I was always attracted to quiet guys, to the guy that you didn't know what he was thinking. When Chip and I went on our first date, he didn't stop talking. In my mind, I was like, 'OK, this isn't going to work. "Because he is not quiet, he's not mysterious.
He's very just out there. … Then, I heard this voice say, 'This is who you're going to marry.' Call it God, call it whatever. 'This is the man you're going to marry.'" One of the things that attracted Joanna to Chip during that first date was, while he was talkative, he also proved himself a good listener.
She explained there is a distinction between "people who hear and listen," and that Chip was a great listener. Chip was shocked to hear his wife thought about marrying him on their first date, asking her for clarification more than once. At one point, she admitted to "seeing him talking" but not being able to hear what he was saying anymore.
"I'm arguing with my inner self, saying, ‘This is not the person,’" she recalled. "Were you really?" Chip asked. "Was it like severe desperation? You were kind of arguing? Sad." The next few months
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