But not every memory from their early courtship is a happy one.
Isbell struggled deeply withalcoholism and drugsearly in his career.
If you say this again, then you’re gonna be held to it."

Which, she did.
However, the “night-before bender” nearly broke them.
At that point I was not having any more to do with him.

Because I was so mad the next morning."
But as Isbell worked through rehab, he wrote to Shires, sending her drawings and progress updates.