I Read ‘Growing Up Duggar’: Chapter 5 — Your Relationship with Guys

Guys, marriage is a special gift from God. Jim Bob and Michelle are still deeply in love and committed after all this time, and they have a lot of advice.

The two keys to maintaining a marriage are being able to admit when you are wrong and asking for forgiveness. Also, they never go to bed angry, and they focus on having a God-centered marriage.

Since the Duggar girls don’t build relationships independently, we’re going to start this chapter about girls growing into adolescence with a story from a man. Jim Bob knew a girl who was boy-crazy when he was a teenager. She had a new boyfriend weekly over a period of several years. The girl got married and was still very unhappy, insecure, and self-centered. I am left with no new information, but I do wonder how Jim Bob knows all of this.

Next, the girls warn us about romance novels. Romance novels are just as dangerous for women as pornography is for men because both fail to satisfy, they say. Plus, they both create unrealistic expectations. This section also tells me that the girls seem to think Playboy is still the pinnacle of porn, because they keep talking about all the “airbrushing” involved.

The Duggar girls know a lot about marriage. They say that God created us with the inborn desire to be loved and…