Lauren Akins Started to ‘Resent’ Husband Thomas Rhett After They Welcomed 2 Children in 3 Weeks
Lauren Akins detailed her experience with postpartum depression, recalling feelings of resentment toward husband Thomas Rhett after their first two children became a part of their life. https://t.co/TY14WgsXWg
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Lauren Akins detailed her experience with postpartum depression in a short film titled “This Wasn’t the Plan” During the intense 13-month adoption process to make eldest daughter, Willa Gray, 8, (an orphan from Uganda), part of their family, Lauren discovered she was pregnant.
"A lot of the adoption process really fell on me because I was the one who was able to travel and be with her, and foster to adopt her for those 13 months. There were so many roadblocks, and I became pregnant. I was getting sick and throwing up, like, 50-something times a day. The whole time I was missing my husband.”
Lauren admitted she started to resent Rhett, because he was on tour the entire time.
"I felt like I was just hanging on by a thread. As I got more and more pregnant, it was just like, ‘Am I going to have this baby over here?’ I don’t want to leave one child to take care of another in America. So, we made the decision for me to come back and get the care that I needed because I was so sick.”
Her parents got to bring Willa Gray home. Three months later, she gave birth to daughter Ada James.
"It kind of felt like we went zero to two pretty quick as parents. I began touring with my husband and I was running myself ragged, just chasing him all over the place, trying to make it feel like it used to. His life went on and I felt like mine stopped. I felt like we weren’t doing it together anymore. I just hit a breaking point where I didn’t like him and I resented him,”
To fix their issues, the couple did a mini intensive counseling session and put all their issues out on the table. “We shared everything, and some of it was really hard to hear for each other. So, we really just did a restart, and that was when I feel like our marriage took off.”
They welcomed their third child, Lennon Love, in February 2020, and their fourth Lillie Carolina in November 2021.
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