Joelly Blackledge
Ms. Farragut
English I
28 February 2023
Tammy Wynette and George Jones’ Relationship Many celebrities and music artists, especially country music artists, are known for having love and heartbreaks in their lives. This makes these artists more relatable to an everyday person. A lot of these everyday people listen to country music, as it has those relatable topics of love and heartbreak written in them. Plenty of these country love songs were written as duets. One of the most famous country duos were Tammy Wynette and George Jones. They had a relationship that was full of love, heartbreak, jealousy, and longing for each other. This relationship helped popularize duets in the country music genre. Because of the popularity around
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They had to lie about when they actually got married and hid in Lakeland, Florida until their official marriage because of a scandal surrounding her previous marriage to Don Chapel. Wynette had stayed with Jones overnight, and the next day the two flew to Mexico. They decided that Wynette needed to divorce Chapel, so they could get married. This caused an issue because Tennessee would not acknowledge a divorce that was made in Mexico. However, Wynette knew that she could use the law against itself. An Alabama law states that if you try to remarry within one year of getting a divorce, you have to have a judge allow you to remarry. This allowed Tammy Wynette to marry George Jones without many …show more content…
One of the most prevalent issues was George Jones’ alcoholism. Jones was known for getting angry when he got drunk. He would take out his anger on anyone, including the people that he loved. One time, when Wynette and Jones were at their home in Lakeland, Florida, before the marriage, he attacked Wynette. Jones had gotten extremely drunk with his friends. Wynette had tried to bring Jones home, but he got mad at her, punched her, and smashed a bottle on a wall. Wynette ran away and Jones chased after her, and he then fell into a flower bed and broke his wrist. This was not the only time that Jones would take out his drunken rage on