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Did Jana Duggar and Stephen Wissmann’s PDA trace at (different) cult rule-breaking?
Fans suppose so. And, on the idea that Jana violated Jim Bob’s restrictions earlier than marriage, they’re comfortable for her.
To recap, inside hours of Jana Duggar’s wedding ceremony date leaking, she married Stephen WIssmann.
None of this matches the sample of a “regular” Duggar wedding ceremony. And there have been hints that Jana and Stephen by no means abided by “courtship” guidelines.
Jana Duggar and Stephen Wissmann are married!
On Thursday, August 15, Jana Duggar married Stephen Wissmann. They had a comparatively low-key ceremony regardless of Jana’s actuality TV fame and the presence of 500 visitors.
Jessa Duggar, one in every of Jana’s innumerable sisters, was her maid of honor. Joy-Anna, jinger, Johannah, and Jordyn Duggar had been different bridesmaids, and so was sister-in-law Abbie Duggar. (Jill was not a part of the marriage party)
Marriage is all however obligatory withing the Duggar household and to the fundamentalist cult to which they belong. But a lot of how this got here to be is simply too regular for the Duggar world.
Jana is 34 years previous, reasonably than being in her teenagers or very early 20s. She and Stephen had an actual engagement (he proposed in June) as a substitute of a courtship. And Jana and Stephen even (allegedly) dated just a few years in the past and broke up earlier than reuniting early in 2024.
That is now how the cult raised Jana Duggar and her siblings to reside. She’s dwelling her life like what she is — a grown grownup Millennial — reasonably than like her father’s property.
The wedding ceremony — and, specifically, the marriage reception — had lots of Jana’s followers questioning if she and Stephen made different regular decisions forward of their nuptials.
What does Jana Duggar and Stephen Wissmann’s PDA imply?
Many of us have seen viral movies the place a fundamentalist bride and groom clearly don’t know methods to kiss on the altar, as a result of they don’t know methods to kiss.
That didn’t appear to be the case for Jana and Stephen. Even although Jana’s siblings had chaperones throughout their oh-so-brief courtships to make sure that they didn’t a lot as “front-hug,” Jana and Stephen had been doing simply nice.
At one second through the wedding ceremony, Stephen picked up his new spouse. Touching the realm of Jana’s butt didn’t appear awkward to followers and commenters, who puzzled if this was not new territory for them.
This was about extra than simply courtship guidelines, nevertheless. Plenty of snarky posts on social media, together with Twitter, famous that Jana was sporting a phenomenal wedding ceremony robe. A marriage robe that bared her shoulders.
Michelle Duggar has defined that, in her cult’s twisted theology, a lady exhibiting any quantity of attractiveness is “defrauding” onlookers as a result of they imagine that it’s the lady’s fault if a person finds her enticing. And, in fact, they imagine that solely a married couple might act upon these needs.
By that orthodoxy, Jana “defrauded” loads of wedding ceremony visitors. But the larger query is, to be blunt, simply what number of guidelines did Jana and Stephen break earlier than they tied the knot?
Across social media, folks cracked jokes about “entrance hugs,” “[sex worker] shoulders,” and extra — whilst they showered Jana with compliments.
However, now we have to emphasise that that is all mere hypothesis. Well, the lower of the gown isn’t. And neither is Jana’s age, which makes her virtually a geriatric bride by Duggar requirements.
It is feasible that, in the future, Jana will open up about her (throughout the cult) “previous maid” standing and what led as much as the marriage. For now, nevertheless, Jana is chalking the timing of her marriage as much as her God and leaving it at that.
The newlyweds are transferring
In addition to metaphorically distancing herself from her household’s guidelines, Jana and Stephen are transferring a substantial bodily distance from the Duggar compound, as properly.
Together, they are going to reside of their new marital dwelling in a brand new state. Their new 5-bedroom home (which value solely $275,000) is in Lincoln, Nebraska.
They’ll be near the Wissmann household, whom Jana is aware of properly. And they’ll be removed from Jim Bob and Michelle and the websites of Josh Duggar’s crimes. That sounds prefer it’s for the perfect.
