Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)

[BradandJanet]

9 minutes ago, crazy8s said:

I hope Jill is not going for The Rodrigues Sisters Boutique.

 

If she does, it will probably last as long as the Creamy Ivory Cream shop she ran with the minister's wife. It was a big deal for about two weeks and never mentioned again, even though Jill and Mrs. Minister had to pay several months in advance to lease the space. 

[libgirl2]

8 minutes ago, AstridM said:

You know, I hadn’t thought about the possibility that Timothy might not even be aware of what Jill wrote about him in 2016. 

Something else, indeed! Did you read the recent Reddit AMA?

Yes. 

[AstridM]

Just now, libgirl2 said:

Yes. 

Yikes, am I right? 😳

[libgirl2]

1 minute ago, AstridM said:

Yikes, am I right? 😳

She is something else. Like I said, Jill is all smiles now but I predict this won't turn out good. 

[crazy8s]

26 minutes ago, BradandJanet said:

If she does, it will probably last as long as the Creamy Ivory Cream shop she ran with the minister's wife. It was a big deal for about two weeks and never mentioned again, even though Jill and Mrs. Minister had to pay several months in advance to lease the space. 

Last summer mama and the sisters posed in new matching outfits on the once a year vacation to announce Jill's long dreamed of quarterly magazine. One issue, not printed by Dave, Jill tried to sell subscriptions and never another issue.

Jill is still offering the first issue of her magazine to people at the grift stops. Jill "they are $2 or you can just take one"

[libgirl2]

6 minutes ago, crazy8s said:

Last summer mama and the sisters posed in new matching outfits on the once a year vacation to announce Jill's long dreamed of quarterly magazine. One issue, not printed by Dave, Jill tried to sell subscriptions and never another issue.

Jill is still offering the first issue of her magazine to people at the grift stops. Jill "they are $2 or you can just take one"

She never completes things. If this big announcement is something other than an engagement or baby, we won't hear from it for very long. 

[GeeGolly]

Jill is probably buying Temu clothes to resell.

[AstridM]

34 minutes ago, GeeGolly said:

Jill is probably buying Temu clothes to resell.

Much like the Bates Sisters! 😆🤪

[laurakaye]

13 hours ago, Madtown said:

I never thought there would be someone in the Rod circle more nuts than Jill. Enter Bri..sheesh, she's quite something..

I suspect that Jill and Bri found each other through some dark Fundie network and Sammers is just the hapless conduit for the two women to join forces.  I mean good heavens, will Sam even be able to change his socks without input from his wife and mother?   

[AstridM]

15 minutes ago, laurakaye said:

I suspect that Jill and Bri found each other through some dark Fundie network and Sammers is just the hapless conduit for the two women to join forces.  I mean good heavens, will Sam even be able to change his socks without input from his wife and mother?   

He’s David, Jr. in more ways than one.

[Heathen]

2 hours ago, crazy8s said:

I hope Jill is not going for The Rodrigues Sisters Boutique.

 

Honestly, that was my first thought. 

[lascuba]

I'm just starting to catch up on the Rods after not having paid much attention to them since Tim started courting and...to say I'm shocked that Tim would be the one to draw any sort of boundaries with Jill is an understatement. Wow, this is going to be a fun rabbit hole.

I find it really interesting how many fundies seem to be fighting back against public displays of "purity" and are now insisting that whatever a couple decides to save for marriage is private. Is it a general shift in the culture, like women wearing pants? Is it a distaste for how weird the public bragging of "saving myself for marriage" is, especially after the Duggars and Bates brought it to tv audiences? Is it just a dislike for Jill in particular that has people reacting that way? The obsession with sex and purity has been central to fundamentalism for decades so I find the reactions to Jill's posts fascinating.

[oliviabenson]

14 hours ago, crazy8s said:

Maybe they bought Brianne a matching outfit 😂

More like Bri bought Jill and her daughters clothes.

[libgirl2]

1 minute ago, oliviabenson said:

More like Bri bought Jill and her daughters clothes.

Good comment. I wonder if Bri has $$ and that is one of the reasons Jill is so enamored of her? 

[oliviabenson]

5 minutes ago, libgirl2 said:

Good comment. I wonder if Bri has $$ and that is one of the reasons Jill is so enamored of her? 

Bri is trying to buy a teen groom. I don’t know if she has that much $. But I see a grown 25 year old woman chasing a sheltered 19 year old boy. It gives me the ick. If Sam was not a ROD I wouldn’t bat an eye. But as a ROD boy he is uneducated/naive/sheltered. Bri is weird.

[libgirl2]

6 minutes ago, oliviabenson said:

Bri is trying to buy a teen groom. I don’t know if she has that much $. But I see a grown 25 year old woman chasing a sheltered 19 year old boy. It gives me the ick. If Sam was not a ROD I wouldn’t bat an eye. But as a ROD boy he is uneducated/naive/sheltered. Bri is weird.

I wouldn't put it past her to spend whatever she has to buy a husband (and his family). The age difference wouldn't be that bad if it were different circumstances (and he were a bit older). I have a friend who's husband is 9 years younger than her and it works. 

[AstridM]

32 minutes ago, oliviabenson said:

More like Bri bought Jill and her daughters clothes.

How? Does she even have a job? Does she pay rent?

[whydoiwatch]

Trying to catch up on all of this.....that's what I get for not following this train wreck more closely.

Who is Hallie?  I see references to Hallie's posts, etc...but not sure where/how she fits in. Thanks !

 

 

 

[oliviabenson]

Just now, whydoiwatch said:

Trying to catch up on all of this.....that's what I get for not following this train wreck more closely.

Who is Hallie?  I see references to Hallie's posts, etc...but not sure where/how she fits in. Thanks !

 

 

 

Hallie is Heidi’s sister.

[Salacious Kitty]

I read the AMA, but it hadn't been up long, so she had only answered a few questions. Thing is, she doesn't know Bri as an adult, having grown apart around maybe age 16. She did say that Bri was controlling and came from a fairly strict Catholic background. 

Edited September 24 by Salacious Kitty

[AstridM]

31 minutes ago, Salacious Kitty said:

I read the AMA, but it hadn't been up long, so she had only answered a few questions. Thing is, she doesn't know Vri as an adult, having grown apart around maybe age 16. She did say that Bri was controlling and came from a fairly strict Catholic background. 

Yeah, did you get to the part about swimming . . .?

[ranchgirl]

22 hours ago, AstridM said:

Reminder of how awful Jill has always been to Timothy 😢😢😢😡.

 

https://rodriguesfamilyministries.com/main/news-timothy-rodrigues-march-2016/

What I found interesting in this very old blog post is how Jill wanted to brag on Tim to the other children about his fasting and he asked her not to.  But then she made a whole blog post about it.   Something that means something to Tim that that he did for his faith (or maybe so his siblings had more to eat) and she can't let it be.  She has to share it to make herself look good.  

[AstridM]

1 minute ago, ranchgirl said:

What I found interesting in this very old blog post is how Jill wanted to brag on Tim to the other children about his fasting and he asked her not to.  But then she made a whole blog post about it.   Something that means something to Tim that that he did for his faith (or maybe so his siblings had more to eat) and she can't let it be.  She has to share it to make herself look good.  

Shows how much she hasn’t changed.😢

[Salacious Kitty]

1 minute ago, AstridM said:

Yeah, did you get to the part about swimming . . .?

No. What was that about?

[AstridM]

Just now, Salacious Kitty said:

No. What was that about?

Her childhood friend discussed an incident where they were swimming and Brigot kept “playing” around trying to hold her under water, and the lifeguard saw her struggling and jumped in.😳😳😳

[libgirl2]

2 minutes ago, AstridM said:

Her childhood friend discussed an incident where they were swimming and Brigot kept “playing” around trying to hold her under water, and the lifeguard saw her struggling and jumped in.😳😳😳

Sam better sleep with one eye open! Jill too. 

[oliviabenson]

Jill will sink in the ditch faster because of her street swim wear. How no one drowned is a miracle.

[floridamom]

Those matching pink smock tops look like 1950s maternity tops to me. I think I saw something similar on an old I Love Lucy episode.

[libgirl2]

6 minutes ago, floridamom said:

Those matching pink smock tops look like 1950s maternity tops to me. I think I saw something similar on an old I Love Lucy episode.

that's why it looks so familiar! They do look really outdated.

[Notabug]

1 hour ago, AstridM said:

Her childhood friend discussed an incident where they were swimming and Brigot kept “playing” around trying to hold her under water, and the lifeguard saw her struggling and jumped in.😳😳😳

There's also the incident where, as young teens, a group of girls were using the pool at someone's house and Brianne stripped and went skinny dipping; much to the embarrassment of the other girls there.  Seems like she was pretty strange and did a lot of weird stuff.

The poster also repeatedly says Brianne loved her baby sister but absolutely hated the two kids born between them.  She would go out of her way to set them up to get in trouble which, since her parents were very strict and didn't spare the rod, was really upsetting to the friend.  She also tried to get the friend's younger sibs in trouble but the friend's mom caught on to her ways and nipped it in the bud.  Very Jill-like, methinks.

[Iguessnot]

1 hour ago, floridamom said:

Those matching pink smock tops look like 1950s maternity tops to me. I think I saw something similar on an old I Love Lucy episode.

Probably old McCall patterns from back in the day.

[Salacious Kitty]

12 minutes ago, Iguessnot said:

Probably old McCall patterns from back in the day.

Someone found them on either Temu or Shein. 😂

[oliviabenson]

I noticed only Jill has thick/big arms. She is the only well fed one in the picture.

[libgirl2]

11 minutes ago, Salacious Kitty said:

Someone found them on either Temu or Shein. 😂

Because of course. They'll order them from there and sell them as their own. Jill can't be expected to actually DO something from scratch. 

[oliviabenson]

6 hours ago, crazy8s said:

Last summer mama and the sisters posed in new matching outfits on the once a year vacation to announce Jill's long dreamed of quarterly magazine. One issue, not printed by Dave, Jill tried to sell subscriptions and never another issue.

Jill is still offering the first issue of her magazine to people at the grift stops. Jill "they are $2 or you can just take one"

She really over estimated how few people would want her family magazine.

Maybe for free but pay $ to read Jill’s blabbering on about how her family is the best and godly and goodly. No thanks.

[libgirl2]

7 minutes ago, oliviabenson said:

She really over estimated how few people would want her family magazine.

She probably thought people would be clamoring for it. 

[oliviabenson]

1 minute ago, libgirl2 said:

She probably thought people would be clamoring for it. 

Jill thinks she is famous in her little fish bowl of perfect religion. She has her hunk, 99 kids and plexus. She is the bestest “right kinda Christian “. She is truly nuts and annoying and dangerous in her rigid views. 

[Salacious Kitty]

3 minutes ago, libgirl2 said:

She probably thought people would be clamoring for it. 

It's probably just her social media posts in print form. Like her YT is a compilation of her posts. 

[libgirl2]

If someone finds the link to these shirts, please share if you can. 

[Salacious Kitty]

Just now, libgirl2 said:

If someone finds the link to these shirts, please share if you can. 

You might want to ask on FJ. I'm pretty sure that's where I saw it yesterday. 

[crazy8s]

1 hour ago, Iguessnot said:

Probably old McCall patterns from back in the day.

This made me laugh because in the comments about the big news and pic with matching outfits were sewing comments.

[crazy8s]

Jill now has a reel up that states they were on vacation. So much for the "retreat"

Also Jonathan is trying to grow some facial hair.

Edited September 24 by crazy8s

[merylinkid]

oops Jill forgot it was a "retreat."   Oh well she hopes that the clearinghouse won't hold it against her because she is showing them at devotions.   

It's late September, shouldn't she be homeschooling the younger kids by now?

[oliviabenson]

A bunch of spineless men being controlled by an evil harpy. 
 

Vacation #666 over.

[Natalie68]

5 hours ago, Salacious Kitty said:

I read the AMA, but it hadn't been up long, so she had only answered a few questions. Thing is, she doesn't know Bri as an adult, having grown apart around maybe age 16. She did say that Bri was controlling and came from a fairly strict Catholic background. 

Could you be so kind as to send me the link in messages?

[ALittleShelfish]

Kinda says something about their faith if they have to work to "strengthen" it every night.   

[mythoughtis]

1 hour ago, crazy8s said:

Jill now has a reel up that states they were on vacation. So much for the "retreat"

Also Jonathan is trying to grow some facial hair.

 

the very first clip is him railing about other Christians calling them wicked.     Jill just cannot move on  

In addition, why can’t they let one of the women  say a devotion?  It’s an informal group not a church service  

 

[sixlets]

1 hour ago, crazy8s said:

Jill now has a reel up that states they were on vacation. So much for the "retreat"

Also Jonathan is trying to grow some facial hair.

One, he is failing miserably, and two, I thought she wrote "These men are nachos in our lives".  It's been one of those days.

[ginger90]

4 hours ago, libgirl2 said:

She probably thought people would be clamoring for it. 

I wonder if her father thought it she be published. 🤔 

[YupItsMe]

11 hours ago, libgirl2 said:

She never completes things. If this big announcement is something other than an engagement or baby, we won't hear from it for very long. 

She never completes things because she never has any repeat customers. She thinks she has some huge fan base that will rush to buy her items, however the majority of the people following her on SM are snarkers and would never buy anything she’s trying to sell.