Mojitogirl

I can't. I mean, I have no words. They protect their daughter from people like ME and then hand them over to people like THEM. I pray that God protects them because they certainly didn't ask to be born into this.

I agree. If they are being filmed on the honeymoon, I doubt they made any decisions about it. That people quote about Austin "wanting to go there" sounds like pure BS. People or TLC told them where they were going and the staged activities reinforce that I feel awful being so cynical but I don't trust anything these people show the world. They aren't curious, well-read, cultured, or interesting (but I think they might be if they were allowed to be)

That was my initial thought but the geotag takes you to a Rio Grande do Sul In south Brazil. It surprised me they would be that adventurous. I see they are all that detail oriented and truthful in their social media :roll eyes:

Here's the pictureJennifer Hartono has a picture on her IG with Jana and two of the Duggar boys at what seems like an amusement park. 2 days earlier she had a picture tagged to the south of Brazil. It's a bunch of young people with their back to the camera so can't tell if the Dugs were in (or still are) Brazil. She's leaning right in to one of he boys, maybe Jana and the other one are chaperoning? trying to insert the picture but not sure if working.

There's no doubt in my mind that they sent him away so quickly in large part to separate him from Anna. Avoid any neighbors or paparazzi overhearing a screaming match, or a visit from the cops if the emotions got out of hand. Besides, out of sight, out of mind so Anna had to process all her emotions by herself without any input from the one causing all of it. 6 months later, they probably hoped that she just missed him so much that all the serious emotional trauma would have been dampened. I thought it was so unfair that they didn't give her the very human opportunity to yell at him even if, in the end, she knew in her heart she was staying with him.

Not to mention the irreparable damage to their family relations. Bringing this to the forefront will inevitably drive a wedge between them and their brother and his family. I find it more than a little odd that they are doing this now just when the negative publicity spotlight has begun to wane.

I don't give Jinger that much credit nor the Vuolos. To me, her wedding was styled, photographed, and staged for TLC and People (or whatever magazine published the spread). THey needed to drum up interest among their young female fan base by giving them an aspirational wedding. TLC was heavily invested in the wedding with the number of episodes and the time span they spent on it overall. I think if Joy is going to carry a season or more of Counting On, her wedding will have TLC all over it - think barns, candle chandeliers, wildflowers. Otherwise, parking lot (or big field at camp) and crackers.

I don't think that Anna is all that smug anymore. Her hair is THIN which tells me that she is probably under a lot of stress. Pregnancy usually makes hair seem much thicker and hers is flat and her part is wide. I feel kind of bad for her and her impossible, almost nonexistent choices.

It makes me beyond sad that a man who, through all indications, was raised in a loving environment, would consider a 2 year-old saying "I love you" TO HIS PARENTS as a manipulative being. It's mind boggling. I have a 4 year old and while he certainly wheedles me with his little face and smile when he wants an Oreo and even says I love you, the bottom line is that he DOES love me because I am his mother, probably the most important person (along with his father) in his life. And regardless of the outcome he gets, he really does love me. I want to think that this quote is taken out of context. He can't be that stupid, that bad, such a shitty father. It tells me all I need to know about how they treat him, see him, and are raising him.

Chad (is that his name?, the one married to the Bates girl) didn't seem to be in the wedding either. Not sure if that is strange or not. What is strange is the groomsmen being more formally dressed in tuxes than the groom and father of the bride in regular ties. Otherwise, the girls look cute, as if they are all members of the same choir. Wedges, at minimum, would have elevated their dresses to almost semi-formal.

I think the fault lies 100% with PK not because he looked but because he chose to disclose it to his wife on camera. I can imagine the morning after the party at their house. Dorit: "Hey, darling, sexy man, love of my life, get yourself handsome because they are filming us this morning. We need to chit chat about the party." PK gets dressed shows up downstairs and what he chooses to chit chat about is Erika's wardrobe malfunction. Not only that, he chooses to tell his wife he enjoyed it! All on camera, and judging from her reaction, not something she was aware of. At that point, Dorit is embarrassed her man said on national tv that he saw and enjoyed a coworkers privates, and like legions of women before and after her, turns her righteous embarrassment and anger on the "other" woman. Really, if that's the conversation my husband sprung on me on camera, there would be nothing left to fall out when he was free balling running shorts.

If she nursed the last baby for a year till July, then there's really no way to guess when she felt she could let him back into her bed. This one seems to be on the exact same track as the previous four so maybe all that happened was that he had a 6 month vacation and his absence made her heart grow fonder. I don't like to be too judgmental on what couples choose to put up with when it's an issue that is only between them but the molestations would be an unequivocal deal breaker for me. Period. End of story. Her judgement is screwed up, if nonexistent, and because her kids are clean and cutely dressed doesn't make her a good mom. Four kids were doomed before and now it will be five with no end in sight.

Is the book Maude? The key you mention is "wise learned and intuitive decisions". You need to be willing to learn from others experiences and value others experiences in order to grow.

The wedding was nice and, shall I say, normal? However, except for the palpable attraction between Ginger and Jeremy, it had People and TLC written all over it. Both of those media outlets needed an aspirational wedding so that fans would continue to buy their show and magazine. I think this wedding was planned, photographed, and filmed to get their teeny bopper fans all starry eyed again. The Duggars were more than happy$$$ to let it happen and the Vuolos didn't have much input. My opinion only, of course.

I'm surprised that Joy was allowed to arrive in Laredo before the rest of them and hang out alone with Jeremy.

I thought Jinger looked beautiful and her wedding details were really in the range of what people in all walks of life are doing for their weddings. That said, I think we give too much credit to her Pinterest skills / good taste / googling skills. This wedding, to me, was completely a TLC and People magazine wedding with every single thing that was photographed (and probably to be aired) was chosen and designed by TLC / magazine designers or interns. These media outlets NEED their readers and viewers to aspire to be these girls so that they can finish their repackaging of this generation as good, pure, not morally corrupt girls who just happen to have 18 siblings. And the crazy fades away in the background.

Living large, Michelle. That's a nice Longchamp tote she's carrying. The People money seems to be benefitting the parents too!