Erin Napier Contemplates What Would Happen If She ‘Ever Lost’ Husband Ben: ‘100 Percent Irreplaceable’

Erin Napier is pondering what life would be like without husband Ben Napier.

Last week, the HGTV star, 41, posted a candid snap of Ben Napier, 43, on Instagram, where she gushed over him in the caption.

“Blue collar and college educated. An artist, but also a mechanic. The biggest and strongest man in the room, who wrote his wife a love letter at 4:30 am,” Erin penned. “Staying up late reading Larry McMurtry, getting up early to plant butterfly bushes for his daughter who wants to hold a monarch in her hands.”

Erin then confessed, “If we ever lost him, he would be 100 percent irreplaceable. There is not another man anything like him, and I think about this often.”

In 2004, the Home Town cohosts met while studying at Jones County Junior College in Mississippi, and they both transferred to the University of Mississippi in Oxford, according to Fox News. In 2007, Ben proposed to Erin at a bookstore in Oxford, and the couple got married in 2008.

As First for Women previously reported, in July Erin posted a photo of the paperwork for her wedding ring on Instagram, which revealed Ben spent over $3,000 on the diamond rock years ago.

“I felt a lump in my throat seeing the dollar amount for what he sacrificed and worked so hard to give me when he could barely afford gas for his truck senior year at Ole Miss,” Erin wrote in the caption. “I didnt expect it at all and would’ve married him with a dandelion tied around my finger.”

The couple has two daughters, Helen, 8, and Mae, 5, and has decided to homeschool them together, sharing updates on social media.