"Chris Willman of Variety found the choice of making an album about her divorce "unexpectedly savvy" as a "parcel all that pain into a dam-burster of a side project with no commercial expectations, no press and no holds barred".

Willman wrote that even if it was a "volume of historical annotation", the songs did not "always feel so strictly autobiographical that they lack for cleverness", with "very little [that] sounds singularly country genre".

[11] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic described the lyrics as "a number of intimate details of their union, along with a rolling series of self-insights" not finding them, however, "intense".

Erlewine wrote that the album "offers clean, uncluttered comfort" not in line with his conception in "a place of pain", as her divorce was.

[15] The film portrays a woman, played by Ballerini, going through the stages of grief and acceptance to the end of a marriage and an impending divorce.