Jessa Duggar is now engaged and thanks these family rules.
When your part of a massive family like the Duggars, relationships can take a lot of work. Now the family have revealed their top 5 relationship rules that they live and breathe by.
Jessa Duggar, the 3rd child of Bob and Michelle Duggar, followed her family’s advice on how to find the perfect mate and, for her, it worked. She got engaged to Ben Seewald on Thursday.
Rule 1. Set Boundaries
“Dating with a purposeful mind-set is really such a contrast from what we are used to seeing in our world,” the family mum, Michelle, told People. “Emotions get heated the closer you get. You’re like two magnets being pulled together. You need boundaries. What is so great is to set boundaries together at the beginning of a relationship and tell others, so it sets up accountability” she went on to say.
Rule 2. Court, Don’t Date
The Duggars don’t “date,” they “court,” says to Josh, 26, who has been married to his wife Anna for 6 years. “Dating means you’re shopping around. A courtship is the path toward marriage” he said.
For dad Bob, “Courting is getting to know each other in a group setting, both families spending time together and the couple setting goals together to determine if they are meant to marry. With dating, a couple will often pair off alone and that sometimes leads to a more physical relationship.”
“We want to get acquainted with a young man in a normal family setting, where we’ll be watching how he treats our brothers and sisters,” the Duggars write in their new book. “We want to see how he reacts to normal family events, such as Josie accidentally spilling her milk in his lap, Jackson unintentionally ruining his board game or Joseph trouncing him in a basketball match.”
