Sara Evans may not have been in a hurry to get involved in another relationship after last year's divorce, but when she met sports radio host Jay Barker, everything changed.

The two were introduced through Joe Beam, a Nashville relationship counselor who was advising both Sara and Jay as they worked out their issues from their individual divorces. They had their first date in November, and Sara was stunned at how quickly she fell for Jay.

"I was just like, 'Omigosh, I'm totally falling in love with this man,'" she told the national radio show GAC Nights: Live From Nashville. "I was really skittish. And he just makes me feel so safe — I mean, emotionally, psychologically and even physically. I mean, he's big, he's very strong. He's a wonderful father to four children, and now he's gonna be a stepfather to my children. And he's just an amazing, amazing man. And did I mention he's gorgeous? He looks like a football player, you know what I mean? He's got a great bod."

Jay, in fact, used to be a football player, specifically a quarterback for the University of Alabama. The couple plans on marrying sometime this summer.