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Jim Bob Duggar and Jill Dillard are apparently making progress.
The prolonged estrangement between Jill and her terrible mother and father isn’t any secret.
Her personal father banned her from the household dwelling besides on uncommon events when he offers her particular permission to enter.
Jim Bob will need to have given Jill his permission fairly just lately, although. As you possibly can see within the images beneath, there was a little bit of a household reunion over the vacations.
Yes, that’s Jill at Jim Bob Duggar’s home
33-year-old Jill appeared in a set of huge household images. They weren’t her pics, nor have been they Jim Bob’s.
Instead, brother James Duggar shared pics from the notorious household’s Christmas party to Instagram.
If you take a look at the submit beneath, the third picture reveals Jill among the many huge crowd.
As any Duggar fan or critic may inform you, these images hail from the Duggar compound. And, particularly, from Jim Bob and Michelle’s home.
In the image of best curiosity, we see each Jill and Jim Bob seated on a sofa. The similar sofa.
Don’t fear — Jill nonetheless has her husband, Derick, as a buffer. Her deservedly controversial husband is sitting between her and her father.
Things 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 Happy People documentary for Prime Video. She additionally printed her memoir, Counting The Cost, later that very same 12 months.
Many of the criticisms that Jill (and husband Derick) have leveled towards Jim Bob relate to cash greater than to, say, the abusive cult wherein Jill grew up.
Infamously, the Duggar household patriarch has used cash to maintain most of his grownup kids in line. But it went deeper than many critics realized.
Jill and Derick defined that her dad had introduced the household’s actuality profession as a kind of outreach, as in the event that they have been volunteering to mannequin their excessive fundamentalist way of life as some kind 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?
Truth 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 dwelling on this occasion.
We don’t know the way typically she’s seeing her mother and father nowadays. This might have been a special day, notably for the reason that Duggar household are fundamentalist Christians and regard Christmas as a time of specific significance.
Jill doesn’t have to reconcile along with her terrible dad. But if she needs a more in-depth relationship with him, it’s allowed. It’s a mistake, but it surely’s allowed.
