Last week, we learned that despite reports that he fled his treatment facility when the going got tough, Josh Duggar is still in rehab for his supposed sex and pornography addictions.
We know that Anna Duggar will not divorce Josh under any circumstances, and that the rest of his family is doing all that they can to help him overcome what they feel is a serious mental illness.
Jessa Duggar recently hinted that she forgives Josh in social media post, but that doesn’t mean the rest of the family is finding it quite so easy to move on from his many indiscretions.
An unidentified Duggar spoke to Entertainment Tonight recently, and he or she says Josh has a long road ahead of him before he can be welcomed back into the fold.
“It is going to take a long time before we forgive,” the anonymous family member told ET. “In the long term, eventually, we will forgive — it will be in our best interest to forgive. Won’t happen soon. Won’t happen fast.
“Just because we forgive doesn’t mean we trust ever again. We are still extremely upset. We are all still hurt. Josh is still in rehab, nobody is warm and fuzzy to him yet. It still feels like he is a stranger.”
Yes, it sounds as though it may be quite some time before Josh’s family will be ready to look past his long history of sexual misconduct and see him as a brother or son once again.
The Duggars’ once-adoring public, of course, will likely never forgive him.
