The Duggar sisters are no strangers to reality television.
That said, members of the large and ever-growing family from Arkansas are also no strangers to controversy either.
Well,sort of.
There are courtships, chaperones, and procedures more complicated than the instructions for anIKEAbookshelf.
Anyone who has seen an episode of19 Kids and CountingorCounting Onknows that the Duggar family doesn’t date.
Rather, theycourt,and their version of courtship comes with rules.
And to begin a courtship, you have to ask Jim Bob first.
The entire process might seem outdated, but it seems to work for them.
In fact, the story of how Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar first got together is adorable.
“He was a year older, so he was graduating that year.
My friend that worked with me knew him and said he was a really sweet guy.”
“Jessa and I met at her church while on a mini vacation in Northwest Arkansas.
In short, it was the perfect start to a Duggar romance.
Jessa Duggar, for instance,was 21 when she got married.
In a blog post for theSeewald family blog, Jessa reminisced about her first meeting with Ben.
“Surely he wouldn’t be interested in an older gal,“she recalled thinking.
“He’s a teenager, and I’m already twenty!
While their old-fashioned values of courting might seem outdated, they clearly yield results and some good stories.
ForJinger Duggar, true love was just a church fellowship event away.
Then he watched a video of her, and he fell hard.
“I remember watching her testimony video that she had made with Ben and thinking, ‘Wow.
This girl is amazing,'” he recalled.
Basically, Jeremy knew he had to reach out when he saw Jinger’s video.
Their relationship blossomed after that, and it’s really all thanks to Ben and Jessa.
“It was there that I really saw his heart and admired his character.”
In the video, Jeremy added that he couldn’t be happier.
Yes, the Duggar patriarch knows a thing or two about making love connections.
“Being that we had similar life goals, she caught my attention.”
So well, in fact, that Jill found herself catching feelingsvirtually.
As Derick wrote, he felt led to take things to the next level with the Duggar sister.
“She agreed and we continued getting to know one another.”
Austin added that they’d been in each other’s lives for “almost 15 years.”
“There was a whole group of us that came up,” the Duggar sister said.
“I just knew that this was the place that I wanted to ask her.”
Honestly, their entire love story sounds like it was meant to be.
