Gwen Stefani Credits Faith for Love with Blake

is sharing her story about how she fell in love with .

During a conversation with Jeff Cavins on the prayer and meditation app Hallow, the 56-year-old singer said she had never 'experienced active love' before meeting the country singer.

Active love is a conscious and intentional choice to demonstrate care through consistent, tangible actions. It involves prioritizing a loved one's well-being over personal comfort, according to Church Life Journal.

'I also experienced active love, I think, for the first time when I met my husband because I had never really received active love,' she said.

'And I don't think I knew how to even receive it. Like, it was just like I would be so uncomfortable when someone was sacrificing or actively trying to love me through their actions by maybe sacrificing something.'

Shelton and Stefani first met in 2014 when coached season seven of .

As they became friends, they both separated from their spouses.

She was with Gavin Rossdale and he was with Miranda Lambert.

After the splits, the costars started dating and they got engaged in October 2020 then married in July 2021.

Stefani also spoke about how her relationship with God has also evolved, saying, 'I thought that I had something' but she can't compare it to what she has now.

'I remember feeling like I know I can do all these things, like when I get on stage, I turn into this person, right, which is totally part of who I am. But I don't know why or how it happens. It felt weird, and I would get really scared about it,' she explained.

She recalled wondering every time she got on stage or sat down to write a song if she would be able to do it, saying, 'I always had so much anxiety about it.'

The singer added she felt her talent 'wasn't coming from me' but said she 'didn't necessarily know it was coming from God.'

Stefani explained: 'I always thought it would be very arrogant to say, "Oh, this is my gift. This is what I'm talented at. This is what I'm good at." But then I remember at a certain point in the last 10 years going, "No. God made me to do this. And if I don't do it and share it, that's a sin. I have to keep doing it."'

In the same interview she discussed finding Christianity after welcoming her third child at age 44, an experience she called her 'first miracle.'

The Don't Speak hitmaker recalled having deep conversations with a former 'atheist Jew' who converted to Judaism, and those chats started 'waking [her] up.'

She said: 'He was studying the Torah, and he had this big epiphany awakening, and he start[ed] talking to me about the Torah.

'I was desperate at this point during all this. I really wanted to have another baby. I really did. I couldn't, and I was old.'

In 2013, her son Kingston, now 19, asked her for another sibling when he was around eight years old, and she used to hear him praying for her to conceive.

The No Doubt singer told him: 'I'm sorry, your mommy is too old to have a baby.'

She recalled: 'It was like, four weeks later, and I was pregnant with Apollo. I had him at 44 years old, naturally.'

Gwen - who - described becoming a mother for a third time as a 'full-on gift' and 'the first miracle.'

She felt under pressure at the time because she didn't think she understood Christianity enough.

She added: 'It's almost scary because the more you know, the more fear you get. You realize, "Oh my gosh, I'm running out of time and I need to get this together. I've got to be a real Christian! I'm not gonna make it."'

She and Gavin married in a Catholic church in 2002 before getting divorced 14 years later, while their marriage was reportedly .