Originally Posted by
LexieCat 
I'm just not into songs that romanticize drinking, addiction, dysfunction, and abuse. BTDT. It ain't all that romantic.
I dont see the romanticizing. To me these songs are about an intense experience she had living through a toxic codependent relationship and then finally recognizing it and acknowledging it for what it was. I can relate to that experience. She, like me, ultimately realized it was toxic and she had to leave.