With five 2-year-olds and a 6-year-old to boot, it’s safe to say that TLC’s “OutDaughtered” parents, Adam and Danielle Busby, have their hands FULL.
The couple made national headlines when Danielle delivered the first set of all-girl quintuplets in U.S. history, and America has been stalking their Instagram-perfect lives ever since.
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But it turns out, their life isn’t all floral dresses, gardens and Go-gurt packs.
After Adam revealed in a recent episode that he’s “not happy” due to his struggles with postpartum depression as a father, fans got a window into the more human side of the Busby family and the tension in their marriage.
And Danielle echoed that level of humanity with her own struggles in a guest post she wrote for Sadie Robertson’s “Live Original” blog last week.
From attacks on her ability to deliver five babies to attacks on her marriage, she admits she’s seen her fair share of criticism. In an article titled “When I Can’t He Can,” the mother of six opens up about the challenges she’s faced with the never-ending list of “I cant’s” people have thrown her way:
“Over the last few years of my life, I have heard these phrases specifically directed at me:
- ‘Danielle, your body cannot handle the stress of a high-risk quintuplet pregnancy.’
- ‘Danielle, you cannot deliver five healthy babies.’
- ‘Danielle, you cannot breast feed/pump for five babies.’
- ‘Danielle, you cannot survive on one income.’
And the one that is thrown out daily is this, ‘Danielle, your marriage can not and will not survive’.
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Danielle explains that as a “strong-willed” person, she’s often used these negatively charged comments to fuel her in the opposite direction.
“When someone tells me I can’t do something, it fuels me to go after that very thing,” she writes. “I love a good challenge, but what happens when God throws a BIG curve ball in YOUR life plan, and you are instantly faced with all the potential I cant’s?”
To answer this question, Danielle relies on the Word of God.
“Righteousness depends not on what we can do, but on what God has already done.”
Referencing 2 Corinthians, she calls out two verses that give her strength when the “I cant’s” become too much to bear.
“For we live by faith, not by sight.” 2 Corinthians 5:7