Insights As To Why This Song May Have Been Written

No other female country singer conveyed the emotion of heart break like Tammy . Wynette. She endeared herself millions by singing about topics of everyday life-divorce, loneliness, parenting and passion. Tammy divorced twice in her life and lived the hard times she wrote about in this song. She was a teenage bride for her first marriage and gave birth to two children within the first three years of her marriage. Her husband was unemployed most of the time. At one point Tammy and her husband and ch

The text book for the NFO OAC course states that divorce results from the failure of a marriage to meet the expectations of one or both marriage partners. Obviously, for divorce to occur in the Tammy Wynette’s song, there must have been failure, such as the fact that Tammy’s husband was unemployed most of the time, or the unhappiness that could result from living poverty-stricken and her husband not helping her provide for the family. The text also states that those who divorce once are more likely to divorce a second or third time . Though in the song it does not say that the main character divorced more than once, in the singer’s personal life she did indeed divorce twice. Factors that contribute to a greater risk of divorce are a teenage marriage, brief courtship, dissimilar backgrounds, a pregnant bride, limited education, low-socio economic status, or the presence of step children. Although it does not say anything about those things in the song, in Ms. Wynette’s personal life, she had a brief courtship, had limited education and low-socio economic status in her first divorce and marriage, and in her second marriage she came from a dissimilar background from her husband and had the presence of step children. She could have been considering those factors in her own life in her divorce when writing the song “D-I-V-O-R-C-E”. The text also says that most divorces occur within five to fifteen years of marriage. In the song itself, the little child is f

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