<p id=”par-1_53″><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/dolly-parton/”>Dolly Parton</a> was married in her earliest days of <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/celebrity/”>fame</a>, but other men still approached her. Parton’s flirtatious personality has led to more than one rumor of infidelity. Still, she reportedly did not like it when men were overly flirtatious with her. Her guitarist shared how she handled it when men approached her.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-dolly-parton-knew-how-to-handle-a-man-who-flirted-with-her”>Dolly Parton knew how to handle a man who flirted with her</h2>
<p id=”par-2_29″>While Parton <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/dolly-partons-husband-sent-incredibly-romantic-adventure-man.html/”>likes to flirt</a>, those who knew her said she found it irritating when people took things too far. She always made it clear when she was frustrated.</p>
<p id=”par-3_58″>“I’ve never seen a man get physical with her, but I’ve seen men get very suggestive after one too many drinks,” her guitarist Tom Rutledge said in the book <em>Dolly: The Biography</em> by Alanna Nash. “I know it really, really tees her off, but you’d never know it until afterwards, when she says, ‘That son of a b****.’”</p>
<figure class=”wp-block-image size-full” id=”emb-1″><img decoding=”async” src=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Dolly-Parton-2.webp?strip=all&quality=80″ alt=”A black and white picture of Dolly Parton wearing a jumpsuit and bowing.” class=”wp-image-3785053″><figcaption class=”wp-element-caption”>Dolly Parton | Richard McCaffrey/ Michael Ochs Archive/ Getty Images</figcaption></figure>
<p id=”par-4_11″>Rutledge said Parton knew how to shut down any uncomfortable situations.</p>
<p id=”par-5_28″>“But she handles it well,” Rutledge said. “She’ll put him down to where he’ll lose his passion pretty quick. She’s good at making her feelings known to someone.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-she-said-people-didn-t-approach-her-all-that-often”>She said people didn’t approach her all that often</h2>
<p id=”par-6_15″>According to Parton, she didn’t find herself in the situation Rutledge described all that often.</p>
<p id=”par-7_54″>“This is the honest truth, but I’ve had very few people ever proposition me,” she said. “I’ve been standin’ with girl friends when people just say everything to them or just come up and pretty well ask ’em. You know, I have been well thought of, and I have shared conversations with many people.”</p>
<p id=”par-8_25″>She admitted that there have been times when she felt tempted, but she never acted on these feelings. This would have <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/dolly-parton-moral-point-obsession-said-guitarist.html/”>gone against her values</a>.</p>
<p id=”par-9_97″>“I know that there have been people who have wanted to share more with me, and I would have probably wanted to share more with them, but I was already, well .. . I just wasn’t the kind that would go on and do that, because of my own principles and my own morals, and because of my own marriage and my family,” she said. “To me, sex is a part of life, but it’s also a part of love, and in order to share sex would mean that I would have to share love as well.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-dolly-parton-said-her-husband-was-the-most-important-man-in-her-life”>Dolly Parton said her husband was the most important man in her life</h2>
<p id=”par-10_24″>According to Parton, her husband, Carl Dean, didn’t mind her flirtatious side. She described their <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/dolly-parton-describes-her-marriage-to-carl-dean-as-open-but-not-in-the-way-fans-may-think.html/”>relationship as open</a>, though not in the traditional sense.</p>
<figure class=”wp-block-image size-full” id=”emb-2″><img decoding=”async” src=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Dolly-Parton-husband-2.webp?strip=all&quality=80″ alt=”Dolly Parton wears a bandana on her hair and smiles.” class=”wp-image-3785948″><figcaption class=”wp-element-caption”>Dolly Parton | Richard E. Aaron/Redferns</figcaption></figure>
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<p id=”par-11_57″>“He’s not jealous and I’m not jealous of him. He knows I flirt. He flirts too,” the <a target=”_blank” href=”https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/dolly-partons-affairs-hollywood-hunk-21857456″ rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Mirror</a> reports her saying. “Yes, it’s an open relationship, but not sexually and I would kill him if I thought he was doing that. He would shoot me too. At the end of the day we love each other madly.”</p>
<p id=”par-12_8″>Parton and Dean were married for six decades.</p>