With love songs like “The Painter” and “With You I Am,” you’d think that being romantic would be second nature for Cody Johnson.
However, it’s actually not that simple for the Texas native. He may be able to craft a wedding song like no other country artist, but in reality, he hasn’t always been the best about “putting the moves on” his wife Brandi. While talking with Country 103.7, Johnson revealed that he had to really work to figure out the whole romance thing:
“Yeah, I’ve been married for 15 years. You’ve gotta be, you know. I’m kind of a hardheaded, rough around the edges cowboy, and I had to intentionally learn how to be romantic because a lot of the times guys like me, think you’re being romantic, and she’s just going, ‘Jesus.’”
I’ll speak on behalf of all husbands and say that we’ve all been there.
Fortunately, it sounds like CoJo eventually figured out that the romance necessary for he and his wife wasn’t all that flashy. Once the country music star was able to pin down his lovely partner’s love language, showing his romantic side became easier and easier:
“With my wife in particular, I’ve had to really learn her because what I think would be more romantic, so you do the things that she thinks is romantic. Something as simple as ‘I ran your bathwater,’ you know, something simple.
My wife’s very simple, and I grew up watching Western movies, and there’s kind of romanticism about all that too.”
And I wonder if Johnson ever pulls out the ol’ guitar for a good, old fashioned serenade. What’s more romantic than that?
Though one of his most recent releases, “I’m Gonna Love You,” was a duet with Carrie Underwood, I bet a personal, acoustic version of the song could check the romantic box: