Katy Perry Shares the No. 1 Rule That Keeps Her Relationship with Orlando Bloom Going Strong (Exclusive)

Between their breakneck schedules, Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom have the secret to maintaining a strong relationship down to a science.

Speaking with PEOPLE ahead of her Lifetimes Tour, the pop star opened up about navigating her personal life — including her relationship with Bloom — while on the road.

“I’ve talked a lot about love languages and how important they are in learning your partner’s love language, and even if it isn’t your love language, tapping into that for them,” Perry, 40, tells PEOPLE exclusively.

Over time, Perry discovered that “acts of service” and “words of affirmation” are her love languages, she says.

“Verbal support is really important, I think, for both of us,” she adds.

Perry announced her Lifetimes Tour, in support of her 2024 album 143, on Monday, Jan. 27. The “Dark Horse” singer will kick off the U.S. leg of the outing in Houston on May 7 — and she promises the tour will be a “love-filled spectacle” and a “celebration of a lot of the songs that people know.”

While the show is about her fans dancing the night away and having a blast, Perry’s priorities are family, health and delivering a great performance.

“I’m 40. I have a family. I have a whole other world outside of this that I’m tending to as well. I know the responsibility of putting on a tour and how much people look forward to it,” the “Last Friday Night” singer says. “I’m really trying to stay in the best shape, give my body breaks, look after myself so that I can show up every night and give as close to 100% that I can.”

As for the actor, Perry previously opened up about his energy as a romantic partner during an appearance on Apple Music’s Zane Lowe.

“He’s a real sage. We both have parts of ourselves. There’s two parts of us, our highest good, and then our carnal, material self. Ego,” she said of Bloom, 48, with whom she shares 4-year-old daughter Daisy Dove. “When the ego is running the show, then it’s like, ‘Whoa.’ But when that’s in check, then we’re both something else.”

Perry met Bloom at a Golden Globes afterparty in January 2016. Before that, she she was “stuck in a bad, continuing loop” and wanted someone as curious about life as she is, Perry told Lowe. Before the award show, Perry “set so many intentions” under a full moon for a potential future in hopes of seeing “what’s out there in the world” romantically,” she added.

The couple got engaged in 2019 and welcomed Daisy the following year. She’s learned a lot about him since and is continuously impressed by his parenting abilities.

“I mean, life is not peachy keen, jelly bean. It’s about who you are in those really challenging moments,” she told Lowe at the time, “and I get to see who he is in those challenging moments. And it’s why I chose him.”