Carrie Underwood and Mike Fisher made a vow, and they plan to honor it.
Married for a little over five years, the country music superstar and the professional hockey player are determined to go the distance. In a year when many famous couples have called it quits (like Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton; Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner; Halle Berry and Olivier Martinez), Underwood assures Cosmopolitan that she and Fisher will not be among them. "Everyone is getting divorced," the "Smoke Break" singer admits. "They're dropping like flies!"
As she says in the December issue, "We are good. It helped that we were both established before we were married. Neither one of us could be like, 'I didn't know it would be like this!'" They got together quickly—the couple met backstage after one of Underwood's shows in 2008, got engaged in December 2009 and were married in July 2010—but Underwood says they took the time to get to know each other before vowing to spend the rest of their lives together.
Though both Underwood and Fisher are among the best of the best in their respective fields, when they're at home in Nashville with their 8-month-old son Isaiah, they're normal as can be. "When I am onstage, I am not Carrie: I am Carrie Underwood. Obviously, I would never run off to Vegas and get drunk and marry a guy or trash some guy's car," the "Before He Cheats" singer explains. "But everybody has had somebody who's cheated on them or some jerk they dated."
Underwood admits that being "Carrie Underwood" has its perks, particularly because she can be more selective about how and when she works. For her peers, though, it's a different story. "When I go to vote for the Country Music Awards, I have to write in names—I can think of, like, three who are really active," says Underwood, who will again co-host the awards show with Brad Paisley. "Women have to work harder to get half the recognition. I am one of the lucky ones."
Cosmopolitan's December issue is on newsstands Nov. 10.