I'm sure he knew that his ways we later going to turn on him. Addiction is a hell of a habit to break and being around people, especially a wife with the same addiction made it harder to conquer. The article stated love had her own habits and her face in the photo of her with Cobain in Rome shows how she wasn't the clear solution for him. Drugs seemed to have overtaken his mind and we lost a great artist to such a garbage substance.