Adam Busby stood Danielle up on their first date. He had finally worked up the courage to ask out the coworker from the Target floor in Lake Charles, Louisiana — then ditched her to hang out with his guy friends. She waited. A few weeks later he asked again, this time for dinner at Casa Mañana, and the date turned into a family dinner for his sister’s birthday. By the end of that night, she was his girlfriend. Twenty-three years on, they are twenty years married with six daughters.
This is their story, date by date — from a Target aisle in 2003 to a new house in Friendswood in 2026, and it explains the friendship test Danielle gave Adam early on.
2003–2006: A Target Aisle, a Bailed Date and a Christmas Eve Proposal
Adam and Danielle met in 2003 while both working at Target in Lake Charles. They worked side by side for months before he spoke to her, and ate lunch together on breaks. After about two and a half years together, Adam proposed on Christmas Eve 2005, the day after Danielle’s December 23 birthday. They married on July 22, 2006, in a small Lake Charles chapel, in a town still rebuilding after Hurricane Rita. They were, as Danielle later put it, just kids.
2006–2015: Houston, Heartbreak — and Five Babies at Once
After the wedding they moved to Houston, and the hard part started: infertility and a number of procedures before their first daughter, Blayke Louise, arrived in April 2011. Four years later, on April 8, 2015, Danielle delivered the first all-female quintuplets born in the United States — Ava, Olivia, Hazel, Riley and Parker — in under four minutes. After three months in the NICU, the family of eight came home, and never had a quiet day again.
2016–2024: Ten Seasons, One Confession — and the Cameras Go Quiet
OutDaughtered premiered on May 10, 2016, with “Make Room for Quints,” and the marriage played out in front of millions for eight years. The hardest moment came in 2017, when Adam spoke publicly about his postpartum depression. Season 10 aired in May and June 2024. Then the cameras stopped. In late 2024 they started over on their own terms with the More Than Reality podcast — two microphones, no crew, the same two people who met at Target. As for what comes next for the Busbys, the story pauses here.
2025–2026: A New House, 20 Years — and the Word “Maybe”
June 2025 brought the biggest change yet: they announced they were selling their League City home, the Graeson Bee boutique struggling, Adam saying God had “turned the basket upside down.” That September, asked point-blank whether OutDaughtered would ever return, they answered with one word: “Maybe. Currently not filming or on the schedule to film.” Days later they recreated their 2006 engagement photos in matching white shirts, and Adam wrote: “We have been through more highs and lows than a lifetime… we complement each other in the most perfect and beautiful way.”
YOU MAY LIKEAdam Busby’s Halloween Scare Totally Backfired — 5 Wild Busby Halloween Moments RankedJuly 2026 marked 20 years married. Danielle celebrated with a wedding throwback — green cake and all — writing, “We were just kids when we got married, but 20 years later, I’d like to say we are totally adulting now.” Adam was buying her a “different” house, and the one rule they refuse to break still holds. By September, episode 100 revealed the move to Friendswood and a new studio rising in the new house. Episodes 105, 106 and 107 followed — screens down, friendships, Oreo Gate — and the next episode is due this Thursday. TLC has announced neither a renewal nor a cancellation, and the “Maybe” still stands.
Adam once ditched Danielle for his guy friends; Danielle once made him rethink those friendships. Which date saved the marriage — the Christmas Eve proposal, or the honest talks of episode 100? Team Proposal or Team Episode 100 — pick your side.
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