Kelsea Ballerini and Chase Stokes. Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock; AFF-USA/Shutterstock
Kelsea Ballerini and Chase Stokes are placing their hearts first whereas navigating main milestones of their relationship.
“They work so nicely as a result of they’ve enjoyable collectively,” an insider solely shares within the latest concern of Us Weekly of the twosome’s romance. “They’ve a no-drama relationship and might simply be themselves.”
Nonetheless, whereas the nation star, 29, and Stokes, 30, are “severe,” the supply notes that settling down and taking the subsequent massive step isn’t on the radar — no less than not but. “They don’t have any plans to get engaged anytime quickly,” the insider explains.
Ballerini, who started courting Stokes in January after her break up from ex-husband Morgan Evans, just lately revealed she felt “safe” in her six-month relationship with the Outer Banks star — largely crediting him for her newfound happiness.
“The factor that we’ve determined, and to every their very own, is if you’re with somebody that you just really feel safe with and that you just’re proud to be with, why not share it?” she gushed to StyleCaster in an interview printed earlier this month. “He’s additionally a Virgo; we’re each Labrador Retrievers in human type. It doesn’t take a lot dialog to be on the identical web page. It’s been half a yr and it’s been nice.”
Ballerini confessed that whereas she’s been within the highlight for years because of her music profession, the heightened curiosity in her private life is a brand new adjustment. “I’m giving myself a whole lot of grace,” she instructed the outlet, joking that her life over the previous yr has been a “s–tstorm.”
Ballerini and Evans, 38, had been married for 5 years earlier than calling it quits in August 2022. Us confirmed that the pair settled their divorce three months later. Whereas their romance is previously, the exes have continued to reference their relationship — and what went incorrect between them — via their music.
Evans wrote the breakup anthem “Over for You” in October 2022, whereas Ballerini penned her response via a six-son EP titled Rolling Up the Welcome Mat, which was launched on Valentine’s Day of that very same yr.
Regardless of her new music calling again to her earlier relationship, Ballerini has solely grown nearer to Stokes as she’s continued touring the nation on her Heartfirst Tour.
Chase Stokes and Kelsea Ballerini. Holly Jee/imageSPACE/Shutterstock
Stokes, in the meantime, has echoed his girlfriend’s sentiments in regards to the twosome’s harmonious relationship. “I’ll take the job, I’ll take it,” he instructed Leisure Tonight in June of being labeled Ballerini’s “Golden Retriever” boyfriend by followers, noting that his canine, Milo, is a Golden Retriever and German Shepherd combine.
Stokes went on to gush over Ballerini, calling her “the most effective human being on planet Earth” and “so rattling gifted.” He continued: “Simply to see her music and her shine within the ways in which she is in latest instances, it’s been lovely.”
Final month, the actor shocked Ballerini at one in all her concert events, main the singer to pause her tune “Penthouse” — a ballad that depicts her crumbling relationship with Evans — and run off the stage to offer her beau a passionate kiss. She then pointed to Stokes whereas singing the lyrics, “I kissed somebody new final night time.”