57 minutes ago, Cupcake79 said:

I live in Europe, in a rural area. Houses are of all kinds of types and styles. I don’t think I have ever visited a house with more than three bathrooms/half baths. Usually no more than two. Master bedrooms en suite are practicality non existent in our area and definitely uncommon in the whole country. So I don’t understand why you need multiple bathrooms in a normal size house. We have two bathrooms and get by fine even when we have two teenagers and a younger child. 

Growing up, my dad’s house had one bathroom for 5 people. It was a nightmare when all 5 of us were home. My dad took forever to take a dump in the morning. Plus everyone needed to shower, brush their teeth, and pee in that bathroom. We had to schedule things out. Like all kids had to shower at night. Not in the morning before school. And you had to quickly brush your teeth before dad got in there in the morning. Because he was in there for a good 45 minutes! I remember once when my sibling wouldn’t get out of the bathroom and I had an emergency. I ended up pooping my pants. It was horrible. So when we were house hunting in our current neighborhood, I said we must have 2 toilets. I even said it was ok if there was just a Pittsburgh potty in the basement as the second toilet. If you don’t know what a Pittsburgh potty is, it’s just a random toilet in the basement. People say it was for men who worked in the mines all day would come home and strip in the basement, wash up, and use the toilet down there so they didn’t make a mess in the regular bathroom. The basement was where all the clothing was washed anyway so it would make sense. We did see some houses with random basement toilets but didn’t buy them. We ended up with a bathroom on the first floor and a bathroom on the second floor. My kids spend a lot of time in the basement playing with toys and video games. I would love a Pittsburgh potty down there nowadays. 

Podcast with Jessa and Ben. I think this is the link to an YT alternative so that other couple doesn't get the clicks.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=r63hG8xWYdY

I live in Europe, in a rural area. Houses are of all kinds of types and styles. I don’t think I have ever visited a house with more than three bathrooms/half baths. Usually no more than two. Master bedrooms en suite are practicality non existent in our area and definitely uncommon in the whole country. So I don’t understand why you need multiple bathrooms in a normal size house. We have two bathrooms and get by fine even when we have two teenagers and a younger child. 

So have we talked about what MacArthur said lately? He said there’s no such thing as ADHD, OCD, and PTSD. It’s all just big pharma trying to medicate everyone and turn them into drug addict on the streets of LA. I swear he said that. If he had been talking about OxyContin, I wouldn’t have batted an eye. But WTF? How could Jinger listen to this garbage and agree? How does she not see the similarities between MacArthur and Gothard? 

22 hours ago, JermajestyDuggar said:

I will add that this guy also talked about her being mentally I’ll a lot. Which reminds me so much of Greg Locke. Who used mental illness as an excuse as to why he could divorce his first wife in order to be with the church secretary 🙄 It seems like a lot of pastors like to weaponize mental illness to their own benefit. And honestly if he did groom her and abuse her like many have said, of course she would be depressed. Who wouldn’t? 

Ugh, my ex (who is now a pastor) tried this. While we were married and he had me under his thumb, he didn’t give a crap about my poor mental health unless it impacted him directly in some way. But after I left, while the divorce was taking place, he had the nerve to tell me that I should’ve been in the hospital a few times over the years. I just looked at him and said, “yeah, ya think?!” He was so shocked that I didn’t get defensive or try to argue, it was really funny. I was just so incensed that *now* he thought I could have used some help, when he was trying to spin me.