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Jim Bob Duggar infamously makes potential suitors soar by means of hoops earlier than they will “court” his daughters.
For years, folks have puzzled in regards to the questionnaire that decided if they may date his daughters.
Jim Bob makes use of his wealth to manage his grownup youngsters, ambushing his children to manage the narrative on social media.
Now, Jeremy and Jinger are revealing the precise questions that he used to gatekeep whether or not they might side-hug.
On his podcast, Jeremy Vuolo holds up the questionnaire that his father-in-law had him fill out earlier than he might “court” the girl who’s now his spouse. (Picture Credit score: YouTube)
Jim Bob Duggar’s notorious Courtship Questionnaire, revealed!
On the Wednesday, December 3 of Jinger Duggar and Jeremy Vuolo’s Jinger & Jeremy podcast, they revealed the total Duggar Questionaire.
This notorious piece of lore has entertained and horrified longtime Duggar-watches for a few years.
As Jeremy tells it: “10 years ago, I met a really cute girl, and I wanted to take her on a date, and then I met her dad.”
He recalled: “And when I asked her dad if I could take her on a date, he sent me a 60 page questionnaire with 235 questions that I had to answer before I took her on the date.”
Now, they’ve revealed the entire questions that Jim Bob Duggar requested earlier than he would permit Jer to court docket Jing all of these years in the past.
Jeremy didn’t checklist the actually a whole lot of questions of their entirety. That may have made for a considerably boring podcast. Nevertheless, he did give viewers only a style.
“What idols do you struggle with in your life? What is your church going history?” he listed.
Jeremy continued: What’s your mother and father’ church going historical past? Was there ever any sexual immorality in your loved ones? Please clarify.”
That final query is a daring one, on condition that Jim Bob Duggar’s father was a monster in a number of methods, and everyone knows what kind of creature Josh Duggar determined to be.
“Have you ever kissed a girl?” the questionnaire requested. “How do you feel about having done this before marriage?”
On their podcast, Jeremy Vuolo and Jinger Duggar talk about the theological gauntlet that Jer ran with a purpose to start their courtship. (Picture Credit score: YouTube)
The theology quiz actually made Jeremy suppose
One key revelation is that this questionnaire didn’t come from Jim Bob Duggar himself.
Certain, he despatched it to Jeremy Vuolo all of these years in the past. However Ron and Rebekah Coriell penned “The Courtship Questionnaire.”
As we’ve seen with different materials on this cult, from the abysmal homeschooling supplies and past, there’s a marketplace for extraordinarily particular issues like this throughout the fringes of society.
Jeremy returned his full solutions at 107 pages.
Now, this may occasionally come as a shock, however not every little thing on this questionnaire was a foul query.
Jim Bob Duggar is one significantly messed-up dude. (Picture Credit score: TLC)
“Some of them were on topics I hadn’t yet considered,” Jeremy admitted.
“He asked me everything from how I became a believer in my position on theological issues to my opinions on parenting and how I handle finances,” he listed.
“Because they were the kinds of questions that would save married couples a lot of pain and heartache,” Jeremy added, “if they asked them before they walked down the aisle.”
These do sound like very useful inquiries to ask earlier than marriage. As we stated, these aren’t inherently dangerous questions. (Properly, most of them)
The problem, after all, is asking them earlier than folks even date. Truly, on this case, earlier than they enter a courtship — chaperoned side-hugging isn’t even courting for tweens, not to mention younger adults.
Imagine it or not, Jinger Duggar appreciated how a lot her now-husband humored her terrible mother and father again within the day. (Picture Credit score: YouTube)
Is there a silver lining to this gatekeeping?
Apparently, Jinger did acknowledge that it was a consolation to her that Jeremy jumped by means of these hoops for Jim Bob Duggar.
It isn’t that she desperately wanted to know his theological stance on the First Council of Nicaea’s alignment of Christmas with the present Dies Natalis Solis Invicti vacation, or no matter.
Reasonably, she stated that Jeremy proved himself simply by filling it out. Clearly, along with her household rising up on tv, some folks with dangerous intentions (as in, even worse than rising a fundamentalist household) got here sniffing round.
In the meantime, Jeremy was fast to level out that loads of folks might need aced the written check however not meant any of it. They each pressured the significance of attending to know somebody.
Relationship is for, amongst many different issues, attending to know somebody. Within the fundamentalist world, nonetheless, courtship — a poor car for realizing somebody’s true self — is a prelude to marriage, and thus feels too late for asking the essential questions.
Jinger grew up in a backwards world. She appreciated that Jeremy humored her mother and father with a purpose to be along with her.
