Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Correct me if I am wrong, but do all the Duggar kids get engaged within a year or less of dating?
Yes. You can't kiss or have sex without being married, so they have short engagements.
Jill: "Jill also discussed her views on relationships. She and Derick had a three-month engagement and were married only seven months after the start of their courtship, but they said their short timeline was intentional.
“Once we knew we wanted to get married, we didn’t want to put off the wedding for a long time and provide a stumbling block for ourselves," Jill told Page Six. "We
purposed to save ourselves physically for each other within marriage (even our first kiss for our wedding day!), so we had a short engagement period. We knew that we weren’t going to prevent having children, so when we found out we were expecting within our first month of marriage, we were thrilled!”
Jill added that a short engagement makes it easier for couples to stay pure. "You may not wanna push the wedding date out too far as those natural God-given desires with too much time between engagement and marriage can make it harder to remain pure," Jill told Page Six.
"If you are financially ready, and things are in place (which should be at the time the question is popped), we believe an engagement should only be long enough to plan a wedding!”"