When you’re a normal teenager, relationships and breakups come and go as fast as a Snapchat selfie.
But when you’re a Duggar, relationships – nay, courtships – are to be taken with the utmost gravity. They are, after all, regarded as a sort of pre-engagement and preparation for marriage.
That’s why fans were shocked when 19-year-old Josiah Duggar and 18-year-old Marjorie Jackson ended their courtship after just four months last summer.
The reason for their courtship’s demise was not given, apart from their families’ statement of “keeping in step with what they believe the Lord’s will is.”
But now the young 19 Kids and Counting star himself is speaking to People, and has elaborated on why the two parted ways.
“Marjorie and I had a good time together,” he told the magazine. “We were just trying to follow God’s lead on everything. She didn’t feel that it was the right timing then, so we called it quits for a bit.”
With regards to this issue of “timing,” the breakup came not long after news broke that Josiah’s brother Josh had molested his younger sisters.
But that’s a touchy subject.
OOF. I just heard it.
Nevertheless, Josiah hinted that there may be hope for a continued courtship with Marjorie sometime in the future.
“We have time to grow… you never know,” he said. “But when you think about a girl to marry, you ask what kind of guy she would want to marry and you try to be that kind of guy.”
Deep stuff.
We don’t know what kind of guy Josiah wants to be, but we’re pretty certain that “not Josh” is a pretty good start.
