The fact that Doolittle Lynn wasn't prepared for married life became apparent a few months after he and Loretta got hitched. As Biography notes, he brought her home to her parents while she was quite pregnant — because he wanted to chase skirts. However, they later reconciled, and Loretta's patience for her husband's philandering ways came to a quick end. Indeed, her song "Fist City" was inspired by a woman who was "making eyes" at her husband while she was singing. "I let her know she was gonna get a mouthful of knuckles if she kept it up," she said in her book, "Coal Miner's Daughter."
Despite Loretta's threats to other women, Doolittle's philandering did not come to an end. According to Biography, he would oft cheat on her while she was on the road, going so far as to invite other women into their home. "I put up with it because of six kids," she said, via CBS News.
For whatever it's worth, Doo's infidelity, and other character traits, provided plenty of fodder for Loretta's songs. She once noted that Doo was in every song she wrote, though he never knew which line was about him.
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