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Reba McEntire has a lot to be happy about professionally with a return to scripted comedy and her role as coach on oice on top of her status as an iconic, beloved country music star.

She also has plenty of reasons to smile about her romantic life, too, with partner, Rex Linn.  Now Reba, 69, is opening up about the man she calls “the love of my life” and addressing whether they will get married.

“We’ve been together for almost five years,” McEntire said in an interview withNBC sitcom aptly titled Belissa Escobedo) she didn’t even know about.

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Linn takes on the role of Emmett, a short-order cook. McEntire and Linn actually first met in 1991 on the set of the western drama Big Sky.

“I think we have made each other better,” Reba says of her beau. “Rex brings out the little girl in me and I have fun. I’m dorky, I’m goofy. He is too. We love to laugh, and we love each other.”

McEntire spoke about Linn’s culinary skills in the kitchen at home to TV Insider during a feature previewing her show’s premiere on October 18. She revealed her nickname for her boyfriend is “Tater Tot.”

“We cook together, but he’s the type that will find a recipe and cook for three days. I’m like, ‘What’s in the refrigerator?’ I just pile it all together,” McEntire said.

Before getting together with Linn, McEntire was divorced twice. First to Charlie Battles from 1976 to 1987. She then got with Narvel Blackstock in 1989 before officially calling it quits in 2015.

As for if McEntire gets married again she responded to US Weekly by saying, “I’m fine with the way we are. If Rex ever wants to get married, then we’ll talk about it, but I’m fine. I love our relationship 100 percent.”