Trisha Yearwood Reveals Her Biggest Pet Peeve After Engagement To Garth Brooks

Trisha Yearwood is revealing her biggest pet peeve about her engagement to Garth Brooks. The couple got engaged and married in 2005.

In Yearwood’s new album, The Mirror, she includes a song, “Little Lady.” The song begins with “She walked straight up to me in the parking lot / Said, ‘Baby, let me see the ring’ / She cried, ‘Oh my Lord! That’s a son of a rock / He didn’t hold back on the bling.” It’s a refreshingly honest look at the one thing that still bothers her about the experience, 20 years later.

“People ask me if I have pet peeves, and I guess I do. I didn’t know this was a pet peeve until I actually wrote a song about it,” Yearwood says (via After Midnite). “This was with Leslie Satcher and Bridgette Tatum, and we were sitting around the kitchen table talking. And I was telling the story about how when Garth and I first got engaged, people would be like, ‘Oh, let me see the ring.’ And I get that. I mean, that’s the tradition. That’s what everybody wants to do, is see the ring.”

Why Trisha Yearwood Was Bothered By People Wanting To See Her Ring

The 60-year-old understands people’s fascination with a diamond ring, especially one as large as hers. But for Yearwood, the ring is just a symbol of what is really important about her marriage to Brooks.

“It’s not about the ring,” Yearwod maintains. “And when people would say — and I know they were meaning well — but they would just look at the ring and they’d go, ‘Oh, you did good.’ Like, you don’t have to work anymore, like you can now rest. When somebody would say, ‘You did good,’ I always took it like, ‘Does that mean that you think this was all — it was this prize that I was working toward, and now I can retire?’

“But I will say that we mentioned a woman named Pam in this song, and all the names have been changed to protect the guilty,” she adds. “There’s no Pam.”

Yearwood and Brooks aren’t just husband and wife, but they are business partners as well. The two own the Friends in Low Places bar together, located in downtown Nashville.