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Duggar critics have long suspected that Jessa Duggar and her husband, Ben Seewald, aren’t exactly as happy as they’d have people believe they are, and this comment she made on a podcast isn’t exactly convincing them otherwise.
Jessa mentioned being “in love” with Ben in the past tense, and even though she might have misspoke, some people think she was actually letting the truth slip out for once. And at this point, a lot of her critics actually feel bad for Ben, which might be a first.
Jessa referenced a time when she ‘was’ in love with Ben.
Jessa and Ben recently appeared on Matt and Abby Howard’s Unplanned podcast, and even if you don’t include their announcement that they’re expecting their seventh baby, there’s a lot to unpack here.
At one point in the interview, Jessa was talking about the choice she and Ben made to abstain from physical contact (like holding hands) before they were engaged and why that was so important to her.
Talking about the early days of their relationship, Jessa said that even though she’s not a “touchy-feely” person, “when I was in love with Ben, I would always say it was like holding two magnets this far apart.”
People think Jessa let something a little too honest slip on accident.
This clip from the podcast is now being dissected on Reddit. While some people can acknowledge that Jessa might have meant to say when she was falling in love with Ben and misspoke, others think she actually did say what she really meant — even if it was by accident.
“The fact that she admitted this in the same podcast she announced they were pregnant again is wild,” one commenter observed.
Another said, “I don’t think she hates him, but I don’t think she was ever overjoyed with him and still isn’t. I remember during the courtship she just gave him the most blank, uninterested looks.”
Some even feel really bad for her husband.
Multiple people were willing to admit that if they were Ben and heard their wife say she was in love with them in the past tense, they would have been hurt — not to mention the fact that seconds earlier, she said she was glad they didn’t hold hands any earlier in their relationship than they did.
“’When I was in love with him.’ Always nice to hear your spouse say that,” one person commented.
“Hopefully, Bin is too dimwitted to notice… because that’s genuinely a painful thing to hear your husband/wife say,” another added.
Jessa might have just misspoken and truly did mean that was how she felt when she was falling in love with Ben in the beginning of their relationship, but it’s still awkward all around. Imagine how the podcast hosts must have felt!
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