Carly Pearce and Michael Ray have been married for about five months now, and Carly says that thanks to him, she's been able to come out of her shell.
"Michael challenges me," she asserts in a statement from her label. "This may sound weird, but he's the only person that I've ever dated that I wanted to be better for, and that I wanted to change things about myself in order to grow with somebody.
"I'm painfully introverted at my core, and he brought out this side in me that made me almost feel alive. I've had a lot of sadness in my life, and I think that I didn't even realize the way that certain things had affected me, and he just kind of like made me see in color again."
Next Wednesday, March 11th, Carly and Michael will perform their duet, "Finish Your Sentences," on ABC's "Good Morning America."





