The story behind this Thomas Rhett selfie is going to melt your heart

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There are three things boys usually love: sports, music and their mamas.

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Thomas Rhett loves all three.

With his wife Lauren on a mission trip to Africa, Thomas took advantage of some alone time July 9 to crash his mom’s girls night out with her friends, as he was more than happy to share on his Instagram posting a selfie of him and his mama bear with the tagline “Had to crash moms girls night out tonight in Nashville.”

While he may have grown up with a superstar Daddy in Rhett Akins, who was knocking out hit songs in the mid-90s like “That Ain’t My Truck,” “She Said Yes” and the No. 1 “Don’t Get Me Started,” Thomas is quick to point out how much he loves his mom.

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“My mom’s a saint,” Rhett told CMT. “Growing up, mom really made sure that I had my head on straight and was always getting me involved in the youth group and always getting me to go on youth group trips and to camps. She is a big, big reason I am the way that I am today. Mom just instilled a lot of good morals into me, and I have a lot of my mom in me as far as morals go and, you know, just the way that we view life and the way that we love people.”

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As the saying goes, the way a guy treats his mother is the way he will treat you. No wonder Lauren Akins is one of the happiest women on the planet.

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