'He'd be gone eight to 10 weeks at a time. But as Garth's success grew, their challenges took on a new form, according to Sandy. Larry Busacca/ACM2015īack in the late '80s and early '90s, Sandy and Garth struggled to make ends meet while living in Nashville, Tennessee.

Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood in 2015. As revealed in the documentary, when Garth asked Trisha to marry him, Sandy would supposedly tell him, “I think this is a really good move for you, and I think this is a really good move for our children.” According to Garth's eldest daughter, when it was Garth's turn to cook, his dinners would frequently include frozen chicken and boxed macaroni and cheese, adding 'he could not cook to save his life.' So when Trisha came along, Taylor said that she and her sisters were 'real excited.'īut it wasn't only Taylor who saw the positivity Trisha brought to their family.

It was simple.'Īround then, the 'The River' singer began seeing Trisha, who he had first met back in 1987 while recording a demo. If you did what was right for the kids, you were going to do what was right for you. 'That was how we ran it, because we knew it was right for those kids. 'They saw both their parents in the morning and both their parents in the evening, and for 14 years,' Garth told the Tennessean.

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