Editing Natalie Maines (section)

== Personal life ==
[[File:Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks in Glawgow by deebeeandswivel.jpg|thumb|Maines in Glasgow 2003]]
In 1997, Maines married her [[South Plains College]] boyfriend, bassist Michael Tarabay, and the couple moved to [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]], Tennessee. Within two years they filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences.<ref name="Dickerson" />

Maines met actor [[Adrian Pasdar]] in May 1999 at the wedding of bandmate [[Emily Erwin]] to Charlie Robison. Maines and Pasdar married on June 24, 2000, at [[A Little White Wedding Chapel]] in [[Las Vegas]].<ref>[http://www.nyrock.com/worldbeat/06_2000/062600.asp "Dixie Chick Natalie Maines Weds Adrian Pasdar in Early Morning Vegas Ceremony"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101218221613/http://www.nyrock.com/worldbeat/06_2000/062600.asp |date=December 18, 2010}}, NY Rock, June 26, 2000</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121023215957/http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1472621/natalie-maines-gets-hitched.jhtml "Natalie Maines Gets Hitched"], [[Country Music Television|CMT]], June 26, 2000</ref><ref name="Why">Hatton, Spencer (November 26, 2006). "Why rent a castle when you've got the King?", ''[[Yakima Herald-Republic]]'', p. B1.</ref> They have two sons.<ref>Dixie Chicks. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080225075202/http://www.frontpagepublicity.com/dxc/content/personalfacts.html Dixie Chicks: Taking the Long Way: Dates & Facts] Dixie Chicks Official website. Retrieved April 19, 2007.</ref> During her marriage, Maines referred to herself as Natalie Pasdar.<ref name="Kopple">Kopple, Barbara; Peck, Cecilia. (2006) [[Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing]] Documentary.</ref>  Maines filed for divorce in July 2017; it was finalized in December 2019.<ref>[https://www.eonline.com/news/864775/dixie-chicks-singer-natalie-maines-files-for-divorce-from-adrian-pasdar-after-17-years-of-marriage "Dixie Chicks Singer Natalie Maines Settles Divorce From Adrian Pasdar" E! News, Retrieved August 26, 2022]</ref>  The events leading to her divorce inspired multiple songs on the 2020 album ''[[Gaslighter (album)|Gaslighter]]''.<ref>[https://www.allure.com/story/dixie-chicks-april-2020-cover-interview/amp "The Dixie Chicks on the Price of Being Genuine"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220612003826/https://www.allure.com/story/dixie-chicks-april-2020-cover-interview/amp | date=June 12, 2022}}</ref>

Maines practices [[Transcendental Meditation technique|transcendental meditation]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Willman |first=Chris |title=Dixie Chicks, Russell Simmons Meditate on Rick Rubin's Greatness at David Lynch Foundation Event |website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dixie-chicks-russell-simmons-meditate-684492 |access-date=April 27, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140304083118/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dixie-chicks-russell-simmons-meditate-684492 |archive-date=March 4, 2014 |quote=Maines is a TM-er, it turns out. Eighteen years ago, she told the crowd, she and fiddler Martie Maguire went to learn TM together |url-status=dead }}</ref>