Derick and Jill Dillard could have simply uncovered one of many most-ridiculous issues Jill’s dad Jim Bob Duggar has ever made them do.
In a brand new interview with the Ask Dr. Julie Hanks podcast, the previous Counting On stars mentioned what life was like beneath Jim Bob’s management, each earlier than and after they acquired married in 2014. Throughout the interview, Derick said that Jim Bob made him name up each lady he had ever kissed earlier than he met Jill, and apologize for smooching them out of wedlock!
As 19 Youngsters & Counting followers know, the Duggar youngsters all vowed to have their first kisses over the altar on their wedding ceremony days. Whereas Jill and Derick’s first kiss as a pair was over the altar, Derick had already kissed different girls earlier than assembly Jill, and Jim Bob was not glad about it!
“One factor that was odd for me with Jill and I’s relationship was that Jill’s dad had requested that I contact every of the ladies that I had kissed [before meeting Jill], and apologize [to them],” Derick stated. “It was extraordinarily awkward…
“I had kissed different girls, and I used to be open with Jill about that beforehand,” Derick added. “I didn’t wish to conceal something….not that I did something, like, horrible or something like that.”
Jill stated that, on the time, she wasn’t even conscious of Derick’s Jim-Bob-mandated apology tour, however was happy to listen to that Derick truly did it.
“I acquired some fascinating responses,” Derick stated, though he declined to elaborate what the ladies needed to say about his apologies.
Whereas Jill didn’t thoughts that Derick had earlier smooching companions, she stated she would have by no means locked lips with anybody pre-marriage, as a result of how she was raised.
“Our upbringings have been very totally different in that means, the place I very a lot felt like it will be sinning if I kissed [someone] earlier than marriage,” Jill stated, including that she was conditioned to comply with the principles set by her mother and father, in addition to their non secular group, the IBLP.
“It might be sinning if I didn’t comply with the principles that have been sort of laid out [for us],” she stated.
Along with issuing apologies to his smooching companions, Derick additionally needed to fill out Jim Bob’s notorious 50-page questionnaire as a way to even be thought-about to court docket Jill.
“I used to be requested questions on my selection in music,” Derick stated. “…I didn’t know this on the time however Jill instructed me that her dad stated, ‘You want to speak to Derick about his selection of music’ and I feel you stated, ‘Properly, I don’t even know what my convictions are on that.’”
Later within the podcast, Derick stated he wasn’t conscious of what number of unstated IBLP “guidelines” Jill needed to comply with till after he married her, similar to Jim Bob’s strict rule towards pants. (Derick revealed that Jim Bob first heard rumors that Jill had dedicated the sin of pants-wearing after he acquired a Google Alert about it in 2017.)
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“Her dad pulled her apart after we have been over there and, once more, we’ve acquired like a number of kids at this level, and stated, ‘Hey, I heard you’re sporting pants,’ and he gave her a e-book on why it’s not good to put on pants. He gave her a e-book and was like, ‘You want to learn this and notice why you don’t should be sporting pants!’
“…Quite a lot of these have been unstated guidelines I had to determine,” he continued.
One other fascinating tidbit talked about through the Dillards’ podcast interview is that Jim Bob and Michelle have “jokingly” instructed their 19 youngsters that whichever certainly one of them finally ends up having essentially the most youngsters, that’s the one who will get the enormous Duggar Household house.
“It’s like, half-joking,” Derick stated.
(In case you’re questioning, if Ma and Pa Duggar make good on their “joke,” the home would at the moment go to eldest Duggar offspring Josh, who has seven youngsters along with his spouse Anna. Nonetheless, as a result of Josh goes to be in jail and unable to conceive “blessings” for the subsequent decade or so, there’s a great probability certainly one of his siblings will go him up within the baby-making division. Jessa Duggar Seewald is at the moment pregnant along with her fifth little one, making her second in line to grab up the Duggar Manor.)
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