There are plenty of things Carrie Underwood and her husband, Mike Fisher, disagree on, including their diets. Carrie is a longtime vegetarian, who now tries to eat vegan as much as possible, while Mike is a diehard hunter, who loves eating meat. But while they will likely never agree on their diets, the couple has found a way to compromise, thanks to their shared faith.
“If he could be a vegan, vegetarian, my life would be almost perfect,” Carrie said with a laugh in the final episode of their God & Country web series on I Am Second. “That’s the thing about marriage. You don’t have to be on the same page about everything. If I were married to myself, it would be terrible. First and foremost is our faith. We know God brought us together, and trust His judgment, and then just finding ways to compromise through it.”
While Carrie doesn’t necessarily agree with Mike’s choices, the parents of five-year-old Isaiah and one-year-old Jacob have found a way to keep them both happy.
“One of the compromises is that I wouldn’t have beef, and that I’d shoot all of my meat,” Mike explained. “Few exceptions to that, but that’s kind of one of the things that we worked on.”
Part of the reason Mike likes hunting is because of the chance it gives him to get together with some of his guy friends, which is something Carrie can support.
“I would see how he would go and kind of have that fellowship with other men,” Carrie acknowledged. “I feel like men need to get together and have their time. I don’t know what goes on there; I don’t want to ask. But he definitely comes home, and you can tell he feels fulfilled. I’m sure I do something, somewhere, that Mike doesn’t love.”
What makes them work hard to find common ground is their shared Christian faith, which is what they both say is the foundation of their family.
“We’ve been, as the world sees it, blessed with a lot of things, in doing what we love to do, and money, and fame,” Mike conceded. “But there is no true happiness in the things that everyone sees that should be great, apart from a real relationship with God and with Jesus. We’re not perfect. We don’t have a perfect marriage. But we have that one thing in our faith, and that’s why we’re here, is to glorify God with what we’ve been given, and hopefully, we point people to the answer. That’s what we want to be.”
