Celebrity Celebrity Relationships Celebrity Engagements Get Ready to Cry: 10 of the Sweetest Things Lady Gaga & Taylor Kinney Ever Said About Each Other The singer and her actor beau ended their engagement in July after 5 years together By Grace Gavilanes Grace Gavilanes Grace Gavilanes is a former associate editor at PEOPLE. She left PEOPLE in 2018. People Editorial Guidelines Published on July 19, 2016 01:30PM EDT 01 of 10 ON THEIR DECISION TO SPLIT Source: Lady Gaga/Instagram "Taylor and I have always believed we are soulmates. Just like all couples we have ups and downs, and we have been taking a break," the singer wrote on Instagram, confirming that she and the Chicago Fire actor had broken off their engagement on July 19. "We are both ambitious artists, hoping to work through long-distance and complicated schedules to continue the simple love we have always shared. Please root us on. We're just like everybody else and we really love each other." 02 of 10 ON SHARING THE SPOTLIGHT Trae Patton/NBC/Getty "Do you want to know something wonderful?" she gushed to PEOPLE. "They asked him to present tonight, but he said no because he just wanted it to be my night and he wanted to support me. Isn't that special? I just found that out. I love him so much." 03 of 10 ON KNOWING TAYLOR WAS 'THE ONE' Kevin Mazur/WireImage "I really can't imagine being with anyone other than who I'm with right now," the singer told Howard Stern right before Kinney proposed in 2015. "He is the right guy. I have that feeling. I just know it." 04 of 10 ON PROPOSING TO GAGA Lady Gaga Instagram "I just knew," the Chicago Fire star revealed to Chicago Tribune Magazine. "It wasn't a light bulb going off." 05 of 10 ON TAYLOR ACCEPTING & LOVING WHO GAGA REALLY IS Goodenough/Everett Collection "I never thought anyone would ever love me because I felt like my body was ruined by my abuser," the singer wrote on Instagram, captioning a photo of the couple at the Academy Awards, where she gave an emotional performance of her song "Til It Happens to You." "But he loves the survivor in me. He's stood by me all night proudly and unashamedly. THAT'S a real man." 06 of 10 ON THEIR UNIQUE DYNAMIC SPW/TwisT/Splash News Online "The way that it really works is that we trust each other," the star said of her then-fiancé. "He's on his journey and I'm on mine and we're gypsies. And then when we're together, we're really in love and that's it." 07 of 10 ON LEADING A 'NORMAL LIFE' Alberto Rodriguez/NBC via Getty "Having your lover be your best friend is the best thing ever," she told Ellen DeGeneres. "We're boys. I wear his flannels and we eat pizza and watch TV. And then I play him my next single. He likes it, and that's our normal life." 08 of 10 ON HOW THEY COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER Chelsea Lauren/Variety "He is extremely strange, actually," Gaga told Ellen DeGeneres in 2013. "We complement each other's weirdness. That's actually one of the first things he ever said to me. It's a Dr. Seuss quote. You find in someone else a compatible weirdness." 09 of 10 ON THEIR INCOMPARABLE CONNECTION Fred Hayes/Getty "For me, the connection that I feel is so strong that it's so much stronger than physical," the singer told Howard Stern. "We're both very protective of our love … We treat each other with a lot of care and we're good to one another." 10 of 10 ON TAYLOR'S EMOTIONAL SIDE Lady Gaga/Instagram "He's the first man that I have dated that, when I sing onstage, he cries," Gaga told U.K.'s The Times in 2014. "That means more to me than anything." Close