Jim Bob Duggar and Jill Dillard are apparently making progress.
The prolonged estrangement between Jill and her terrible dad and mom isn’t any secret.
Her personal father banned her from the household house besides on uncommon events when he offers her particular permission to enter.
Jim Bob should have given Jill his permission fairly not too long ago, although. As you possibly can see within the pictures beneath, there was a little bit of a household reunion over the vacations.
Sure, that’s Jill at Jim Bob Duggar’s home
33-year-old Jill appeared in a set of huge household pictures. They weren’t her pics, nor have been they Jim Bob’s.
As a substitute, brother James Duggar shared pics from the notorious household’s Christmas celebration to Instagram.
When you take a look at the put up beneath, the third picture reveals Jill among the many huge crowd.
As any Duggar fan or critic might inform you, these pictures hail from the Duggar compound. And, particularly, from Jim Bob and Michelle’s home.
Within the image of best curiosity, we see each Jill and Jim Bob seated on a sofa. The identical sofa.
Don’t fear — Jill nonetheless has her husband, Derick, as a buffer. Her deservedly controversial husband is sitting between her and her father.
Issues haven’t been good between Jill and Jim Bob Duggar
For years, it was clear that Jill was distancing herself from Jim Bob, his notorious guidelines, and his egregious conduct.
Over time, Jill grew extra vocal on the subject, acknowledging the estrangement and detailing her traumatic childhood.
She participated within the 2023 Shiny Glad Folks documentary for Prime Video. She additionally printed her memoir, Counting The Price, later that very same 12 months.
Lots of the criticisms that Jill (and husband Derick) have leveled in opposition to Jim Bob relate to cash greater than to, say, the abusive cult during which Jill grew up.
Infamously, the Duggar household patriarch has used cash to maintain most of his grownup youngsters in line. But it surely went deeper than many critics realized.
Jill and Derick defined that her dad had introduced the household’s actuality profession as a type of outreach, as in the event that they have been volunteering to mannequin their excessive fundamentalist way of life as some type of public good. In actuality, Jim Bob pocketed huge paychecks from TLC … and Jill and Derick needed to lawyer as much as get a good lower.
What does this reunion imply?
Fact be instructed, all that we all know from this picture is that Jill was prepared to spend time round Jim Bob, and that he in flip permitted her to enter his house on this occasion.
We don’t understand how usually she’s seeing her dad and mom nowadays. This may occasionally have been an important day, significantly because the Duggar household are fundamentalist Christians and regard Christmas as a time of specific significance.
Jill doesn’t must reconcile together with her terrible dad. But when she desires a more in-depth relationship with him, it’s allowed. It’s a mistake, nevertheless it’s allowed.
