Jana Duggar: I Was Too ‘Picky’ to Marry Stephen the First Time!

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Being “a bit choosy” in the previous earlier than reconsidering and marrying a man is an uncommon declare.

Is Jana Duggar calling her previous self fickle?

Or is she saying that she lowered her requirements sufficient to wed Stephen WIssmann?

It nearly seems like she’s saying each. Have a look:

‘I was a bit choosy again in the day’

On Monday, February 16, Jana shared a V-Day photograph along with her husband. However the snap dates again to nicely earlier than their wedding ceremony.

“Throwback to Valentine’s Day 5 years in the past,” she wrote in the Instagram caption.

“Such a candy reminiscence!” Jana gushed, including a heart-eyes emoji.

“Stephen and I dated a bit that 12 months,” she recalled, “and he even helped out with reworking my household’s playroom.”

Jana concluded by writing that it was “Such a particular time to look again on!”

Naturally, Jana’s put up acquired a flurry of feedback.

In the Duggar world, courting is a international idea — as are breakups and reconciliations. (However then, so is marrying in your thirties)

“Do you ever want you’ll have stayed collectively then?” requested one commenter.

“Trying again now… Sure!” Jana replied.

Her response continued: “I completely want we might’ve gotten married years earlier! However was a bit choosy again in the day.”

‘I was fairly choosy on what I was in search of in a husband again then’

“Her dad made them break up in order that she might deal with her brother’s kids, so unhappy,” accused a unique commenter.

“Wow! The issues individuals give you,” Jana replied, laughing it off with an emoji.

“That’s so not true,” she clarified.

Jana reiterated her earlier remark: “Really, I was fairly choosy on what I was in search of in a husband again then.”

Only for the file, there isn’t any scarcity of terrible issues about Jim-Bob Duggar. He’s an terrible particular person. We don’t want to speculate about attainable dangerous issues that he could have finished.

In 2011, Jana and Stephen met for the first time — form of. Their households had met they usually even acquired snowed in collectively (in Arkansas!), however they didn’t join throughout this time.

Nevertheless, from round 2020 by means of 2022, Jana and Stephen dated. We now have to observe that, in 2022, Jeremiah Duggar married Hannah Wissmann.

In early 2024, Jana and Stephen reconnected. That is apparently the place she acquired over her alleged “pickiness.”

The 2 acquired engaged in secret in June of that 12 months. In August, as we reported (prematurely — the clues had been all there), they secretly married.

Inside lower than a 12 months, she was pregnant. In December 2025, they welcomed their first little one, Archie Gerald.

Is she actually insulting her husband?

Usually, if you happen to say that you simply had been previously “choosy” however later reconsidered, you’re saying that you simply lowered your requirements.

Nevertheless, it appears unlikely that Jana is intending to insult her husband. Particularly given the poisonous and sexist tradition during which she was raised.

As a substitute, it appears extra possible that Jana’s intention is to disparage herself.

She’s saying that she was beforehand “choosy” and that she acquired over herself, basically, to marry Stephen.

You understand, Jinger lately mentioned the hurt that purity tradition does to courtship — even from the perspective of a conservative Christian. She and Jeremy listed how unrealistic expectations (from individuals with no precise relationship expertise) can get in the approach.

It’s attainable that Jana is alluding to an analogous idea. Both approach, presumably she and Stephen are completely happy lately.