Personal Life
Tritt married his high school sweetheart, Karen Ryon, in September 1983, and moved into an apartment with her. They stayed together for six months, while Tritt worked at an air conditioning company and Karen at a Burger King, and divorced six months later. After going to court, Tritt was ordered to pay alimony to Karen for six months. When he was 21, he married a woman named Jodi Barnett, who was 33 at the time. He divorced her shortly after signing with Warner Bros. in 1989; the divorce finalized one month before "Country Club" was released. Tritt wrote the song "Here's a Quarter" the night he received his divorce papers.
He married Theresa Nelson on April 12, 1997. They have two sons: Tristan James (born June 16, 1999) and Tarian Nathaniel (born November 25, 2003), and one daughter, Tyler Reese (born February 18, 1998).
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