Editing Stevie Nicks (section)

=== Relationships and family ===
Nicks was romantically linked to [[Lindsey Buckingham]] from 1972 to 1976.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Stevie Nicks' Dating History: From Lindsey Buckingham to Joe Walsh |url=https://people.com/stevie-nicks-complete-dating-history-7502107 |access-date=October 9, 2024 |website=People.com |language=en}}</ref> She was linked to [[Mick Fleetwood]] in 1978, [[Eagles (band)|Eagles]] drummer/vocalist [[Don Henley]] during the late 1970s, and briefly to Eagles songwriter [[JD Souther]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 10, 2021 |title=Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham's rocky relationship: A timeline of love and war |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-09-10/stevie-nicks-lindsey-buckingham-relationship-timeline |access-date=October 9, 2024 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>Furman 2003. [https://books.google.com/books?id=SW31aVVDc_AC&pg=PA127 page 127]</ref> In 1979, Nicks had an abortion after becoming pregnant by Henley.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/09/29/stevie-nicks-was-pregnant-with-don-henleys-baby/ |title=Stevie Nicks was pregnant with Don Henley's baby |last=Hicks |first=Tony |date=September 29, 2014 |work=The Mercury News |access-date=May 22, 2019 |archive-date=May 25, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190525003114/https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/09/29/stevie-nicks-was-pregnant-with-don-henleys-baby/ |url-status=live}}</ref> She was involved with [[Jimmy Iovine]], who produced ''Bella Donna,'' during 1980–81, and with Eagles and [[James Gang]] guitarist [[Joe Walsh]] during 1983–1986, to whom she referred in 2007 as one of her greatest loves, but the couple could not sustain the relationship because of mutual drug abuse.<ref name="SurvivorsStory" /> Nicks toured with Walsh in 1984 and wrote "[[Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You?]]" about Walsh's deceased daughter.

Nicks's only marriage was to Kim Anderson, the widower of her best friend Robin Anderson.<ref name=":0" /> They married in 1983 soon after Robin Anderson died of [[leukemia]] while the ''Bella Donna'' album was on the top of the charts. Nicks later explained of the marriage, "I was determined to take care of [Robin's] baby, so I said to Kim, 'I don't know, I guess we should just get married.'" Nicks and Anderson divorced after only three months: "And so we got married three months after she died, and it was a terrible, terrible mistake. We didn't get married because we were in love, we got married because we were grieving and it was the only way that we could feel like we were doing anything."<ref name="robin" /><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nicksfix.com/article_in_style_march2002.htm |title=Desert Rose |publisher=In Style |author=Stephanie Tuck |date=March 2002 |access-date=June 3, 2010 |archive-date=May 27, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110527050753/http://www.nicksfix.com/article_in_style_march2002.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

Years after the divorce, she reunited with her stepson when he was a teenager, putting him through college,<ref name="SurvivorsStory">{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3667803/Stevie-Nicks-a-survivors-story.html |title=Stevie Nicks: A Survivor's Story |author=Brown, Mick |date=September 8, 2007 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |access-date=July 4, 2014 |archive-date=August 14, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150814182335/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3667803/Stevie-Nicks-a-survivors-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and has maintained contact with him ever since. In 2020, Nicks said in an interview for ''The Guardian'' that his daughter, named Robin after his late mother, calls Nicks "Grandma Stevie".<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Stevens |first1=Jenny |last2=@jenny_stevens |date=October 14, 2020 |title=Stevie Nicks on art, ageing and attraction: 'Botox makes it look like you're in a satanic cult!' |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/oct/14/stevie-nicks-on-art-ageing-and-attraction-botox-makes-it-look-like-youre-in-a-satanic-cult |access-date=March 8, 2023 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

Nicks has said that she [[Voluntary childlessness|consciously chose not to have children of her own]], due to her demanding career and desire to follow her art wherever it should take her: "My mission maybe wasn't to be a mom and a wife; maybe my particular mission was to write songs to make moms and wives feel better."<ref>Stevie Nicks on ABC Downtown, 2001.</ref>

Of her niece, godchildren, former stepson, and extended family she says: "I have lots of kids. It's much more fun to be the crazy auntie than it is to be the mom, anyway."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/music/a-magical-life/2006/02/09/1139465789637.html?page=fullpage |title=Stevie Nicks: A Magical Life, 2006 |work=The Age |date=February 12, 2006 |access-date=February 28, 2014 |archive-date=July 29, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130729103944/http://www.theage.com.au/news/music/a-magical-life/2006/02/09/1139465789637.html?page=fullpage |url-status=live }}</ref>

Nicks has maintained a journal nearly every day since her tenure in Fleetwood Mac began.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.more.com/stevie-nicks |title=Stevie Nicks on Loss, Love, and What She Wears |publisher=More |author=Holly-George Warren |access-date=February 3, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221113304/http://www.more.com/stevie-nicks |archive-date=February 21, 2014 }}</ref> She has said, "I like to tell all my fairy goddaughters and my niece that when I'm gone they can sit on the floor and go through all these journals, and they can walk through my life, and they can smell the gardenia perfume on the pages. They can have it in their hands, who I was."

Regarding a book based on her life, she has said, "I wouldn't write a book unless I could really tell the truth, and say all the people are in it are represented right{{nbsp}}... If I'm gonna talk about all the people in my life, I need to be old enough and so do they, that nobody's gonna care&nbsp;... I would never write a book about the bad parts. I would mostly revel in the fantastic parts, of which there were so many."<ref name="drew" />