Kelsea Ballerini and boyfriend Chase Stokes starting to get serious.

On her new song “Baggage,” the country star, 31, teases a new relationship milestone.

“Boy, I know the weight and the gravity / Key rings with the same keys / But if you want that welcome mat / Then roll it up with me / Clear out a drawer, clear out a shelf / I wouldn’t want to do it with anybody else” , she sings. “I’ve got baggage, but I’m moving in.”

So, is the country star and she external banks actor beau, 32, partner these days?

“Oh, we’ve unpacked, honey!” Ballerini – who started dating Stokes in January 2023 — tells PEOPLE.

“Baggage” – which the singer describes as “blissful acceptance” – is one of the standout tracks from Ballerini’s excellent fifth album Patternwhich she released on Friday, October 25.

Ballerini gets vulnerable on the album and opens up about moving on from her divorce — she ended her marriage to singer-songwriter Morgan Evans, 39, in August 2022 — and opened her heart to love again.

“I think for me going into this next chapter of my life — and you hear this on ‘First Rodeo’ — at first I felt very shy and very much like, ‘Oh God, am I damaged goods?'” says Ballerini. “And then with ‘Baggage,’ it’s kind of that juxtaposition of: what I am, who I am, and this is what I bring to the table, and I’m not going to apologize for the path that got me here. I’m proud of my journey and take it or leave it, but I hope you take it.”

Stokes — who appears in his girlfriend’s new music video for “First Rodeo” — supported Ballerini’s latest project on release day.

“Humanity, authenticity, honesty and a lot of vulnerability,” Stokes wrote on his Instagram Stories. “KB, you are a once in a lifetime human being. This record is more than a record. It’s a soundtrack to our human experience summed up in 15 tracks. You made the impossible, possible. Thank you for bringing you to the world. Thanks for dropping your pattern in, please listen and enjoy.

Pattern follows Ballerini’s heart-on-sleeve 2023 EP Roll up the welcome matwhich earned a Grammy nod for Best Country Album in February.

“I think this thing happens when you turn 30 where you sort of assess your life,” says Ballerini, who adds that she feels “naked” on the album. “And I came up for air and I was like, ‘Okay, okay, let’s take a little inventory here. What in my life right now do I love? What feels uncomfortable? What have I contributed to both of these things? What are my patterns? And what do I then want to work on and edit on myself? And then in my closest, most interpersonal relationships, what do I want to edit and challenge and celebrate as well?’”

The “Miss Me More” singer – who will celebrate the release with a sold-out album launch concert at Madison Square Garden on October 29, before kicking off her first-ever headlining arena tour in January — did a lot of self-discovery when he did Pattern.

“One thing I’ve realized about myself is in any relationship in my life … as soon as something feels scary, like it could go wrong, my habit and my unhealthy pattern is to just be like, ‘Oh, I’m going to jump ship so I hurt myself and they don’t hurt me,” she says.

Ballerini adds, “I’ve realized that it’s really not serving me, and sometimes the best thing that can happen to a friendship or a relationship or an opportunity is to have the tough conversations and work through a troubled moment,” Ballerini adds. “When you come out on the other side of it, there’s so much beauty in that, and there’s so much mutual respect for that fight for each other. And I think that’s, in my personal life, one thing that I really proud to finally tackle.”

Pattern is out now.