What if Michelle Died? Who JB Remarry?

[pega127]

While I agree that JB loves Michelle, and she has been the great love of his life, I still think he'd marry again and quickly. I do not see him dealing well with solo life.

Having to marry another fundie woman would mean giving her more kids unless maybe he married the Widow Query?

Plus, someone would need to fill that huge sex void for JB!

[sockinshoe]

If JB did remarry, it would be like Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. Just way too many high expectations for the new Mrs. Duggar...

I think if he remarried it would be for convenience/sex/status instead of love. Michelle would definitely remarry, especially if she were still fertile. As it is, I can see her going for a well-respected fundie royalty widower type.

[browncoatslytherin]

i, personally, would think that he wouldn't remarry for a while, if at all. but then again, i would have said the same thing had something happened to my mum.

then, my mum left my dad. two and a half weeks later, dad had a girlfriend who became my first stepmum. then she died in september 2010. at the beginning of november, dad put his dating profile back online. by christmas he was engaged, and he was married again in april to my second stepmother.

you just never know. i would have thought my parents would be together forever, but if something happened that they wouldn't remarry, at least for a while. they were high school sweethearts, got married right after my mum graduated. but, as he told me after my first stepmum died, he didn't want to live alone, that he couldn't live alone. i mean, i was living with him part-time at the time to help him out, but it's not the same as having a partner. if something were to happen to j'chelle, jb may feel the same way. he's used to having a partner, not having someone would probably be a very foreign concept.

[DGayle]

not only that but have you seen the way Kate acts? No way is she going to bow down to JB. It's going yo be the Kate show.

I think if Michelle dies JB would milk every last second of it requesting donations. How hard it's going to be raising 19 kids alone. He might remarry but probably not in a few months. And what woman whose in her 50s wants a man with 19 kids who needs his ego stroked every 5 seconds? Especially since children carry the sins of their father. Will the new woman adopt her step kids? Will she accept them into her life? Will she want kids of her own since in fundie land a woman's worth is the number of kids she has.

I think many women would line up. Do you have any idea how high the viewership ratings would be to watch how JB does it for himself? Viewership would be through the roof to see if he applies the same standards to himself.

[Quiverfullofit]

What if JB died first? Would J'Uterus remarry?

Do you think they would still be the same as they are now? Before JB, Michelle was a pretty normal teenager; so do you think she'd let the kids a little loose? ie wearing pants or shorter skirts/dresses, letting them text w/o her in on it, or even let them date? Or is she too indoctrinated now? She'd probably still make the J'Slaves take care of the younger kids but would she still keep things the way there are now if JB died?

[Mama Mia]

Do you think they would still be the same as they are now? Before JB, Michelle was a pretty normal teenager; so do you think she'd let the kids a little loose? ie wearing pants or shorter skirts/dresses, letting them text w/o her in on it, or even let them date? Or is she too indoctrinated now? She'd probably still make the J'Slaves take care of the younger kids but would she still keep things the way there are now if JB died?

I think Michelle is by far the more strictly fundamentalist of the two. She is always the one getting visibly anxious if someone steps over a line. It could just be that she does that to keep everyone on script for the show -- for example when Jill and Derrik hugged and Jessa and Ben held hands before they were allowed to. But she seems , to me, like she actually care about all the rules much more than J.B.

If anything I would think if J.B. Died Michelle would become much more entrenched and put her attention to trying to get the wilder younger kids back into frumpers and robot status. I think she'd fail -- but I think she might try.

I think both of them would likely remarry very quickly. Mostly because they were so deeply on love and wouldn't want to be alone.

My baseless speculation is that JB would marry a woman in her mid to late thirties. Young enough to have a child or two - but not a gaggle of them. And definitely someone who was take charge. I think he really needs that.

Equally baseless speculation is that Michelle would want to marry a widower around her age or older with either all grown children, or a few tiny children, maybe someone whose wife had recently died in childbirth. I think she'd go for a guy who was super domineering and more fundie than she is.

Or they could both do a complete 180 and take off with someone completely opposite in every conceivable way. Riding off into the sunset on a Harley with some 25 year old covered tattoos. :lol: I've seen several people go wild after a long marriage ends.

[JBsHairspray]

it would be a trainwreck. the most beautiful trainwreck ever.

Though both Kate and JB appear to be excellent at grifting. They could be a power couple this way.

[roddma]

He'd marry again, and quickly. I do think he's be crushed losing Michelle since I do think he loves her (unlike their kids, they got to freely pick each other without any interference), but there's no way he'd know how to take on a household. It's not like Michelle does anything more than be a half-assed manager, but I don't think he could do that. He'd remarry again pretty quickly so that he could have help.

I think he would just move Ben and Jessa in with them. That way, there is an extra female. I see him remarrying, but not too soon. I agree he seems to really love Michelle and no one else could ever compare in his mind.

[BarbaraMary]

I see JB marrying a virgin. With the obsession with sexual "purity" in women, I do not see him being comfortable having sex with someone who had been with someone else.

[Sundaymorning]

I have no idea if Boob would remarry, I think it could go either way. He could be way to heartbroken to ever consider being with another woman, or he could be very desperate to have a wife again as he would hope that he could recreate what he had with J'Chelle.

What I'm wondering: if fundies, whose spouse has died, want to get remarried, do the courtship rules they have for young, never been married couples apply to them too?

Like, if J'Chelle would start courting again, who would quiz her potential suitors about their porn use? Josh?

Or would Boob have to have a chaperone while going on a date, and would his conversation with his girlfriend be monitored?

[Quiverfullofit]

I have no idea if Boob would remarry, I think it could go either way. He could be way to heartbroken to ever consider being with another woman, or he could be very desperate to have a wife again as he would hope that he could recreate what he had with J'Chelle.

What I'm wondering: if fundies, whose spouse has died, want to get remarried, do the courtship rules they have for young, never been married couples apply to them too?

Like, if J'Chelle would start courting again, who would quiz her potential suitors about their porn use? Josh?

Or would Boob have to have a chaperone while going on a date, and would his conversation with his girlfriend be monitored?

Was just going to ask this!!

[DuggarsTheEndIsNear]

I have no idea if Boob would remarry, I think it could go either way. He could be way to heartbroken to ever consider being with another woman, or he could be very desperate to have a wife again as he would hope that he could recreate what he had with J'Chelle.

What I'm wondering: if fundies, whose spouse has died, want to get remarried, do the courtship rules they have for young, never been married couples apply to them too?

Like, if J'Chelle would start courting again, who would quiz her potential suitors about their porn use? Josh?

Or would Boob have to have a chaperone while going on a date, and would his conversation with his girlfriend be monitored?

They often talk about how they do courtships as a way of "reconnecting with yesteryear" (by that I mean it's "how our grandparents did it." During the time frame that I believe the courtship practice came from (cause it sure as shit wasn't from the era that the Duggar's grandparents were raised in), a widow would marry a widower or someone well off enough to support her/her family. Typically, of the older variety. Or, if she was too old to find someone to talk her as a wife, she'd just move in with her children.

That said, I doubt that the whole purity thing would exist in a remarriage. The most important part of purity thing is the hymen. Michelle doesn't have one. So, that's out the door.

And, I doubt that any of the fundie girls would marry JB both because she wouldn't want to and I cant imagine a fundie father wanting his daughter to be engaged to a sex maniac like JB presents himself to be.

I imagine both would get remarried, and probably to someone who has already been married (though they'd stick with widows/widowers because I doubt they'd be okay with people who had divorces).

[BullyJBG]

Jimbob would marry Debbie Query. Michelle would marry the father of the Twice-Adopted family that just lost their mom. Watch out; they might marry each other first, lol!

As for the courtship rules, I don't know. But probably they would evaluate and re-evaluate; after all, they may realize it looks REALLY bad if they don't practice what they preach. Except Grandma Duggar or any other of their parents who may be still alive(both Michelle's parents have died) would probably say "it's up to you". But all the offspring from both sides would jump all over each other to be chaperones, lol.

[HarleyQuinn]

I was just going to say he'd marry the Query widow. I don't even want to think of some poor young, virginal girl getting married to sex fiend Perv Bob.

[jingersrealmom]

There is a girl in NY who is having relations and a full blown relationship with her dad and they plan on getting married in NJ because they allow incest marriage there. At least JB would have the common sense to not do that, I'd hope!

What about the Maxwell spinster?

[IReallyAmHopewell]

Maybe he could rescue Sarah Maxwell and redeem her by giving her babies....

[nastyhobbitses]

What would happen if Michelle suddenly died? I assume Jana would just continue on looking after everything but would that make it even harder for her to get out from under and have a life of her own, or even court?

Do you think Jim Bob would re-marry? Maybe someone younger so he could continue to have more kids?!

In an obvious ploy for ratings, TLC will marry him off to Kris Jenner. JB will then have to guide Kendall Jenner and Justin Bieber through the courting process and interview Kanye West about his financial savvy.

[Closed Womb]

In all seriousness, I truly believe that JB would have no interest in dating/courting/marrying anyone if Michelle passed. People like to call him a horn dog or whatever, but I don't see it. I see a socially stunted man that wants to show the world how much he loves his wife. Perhaps all the kissing and groping is because he doesn't know how cringe-worthy it comes off or maybe for other reasons (maybe touch is one of her love languages?)

I also think Michelle is driving the sex bus in order to get the babeeezzzzzz.

However, I do think he would have a sad, sad display of Christian women, his age and younger, pretty much throwing themselves at him (or having their daddies arrange some appropriately chaperoned together time, in the case of Sarah Maxwell and the like.) I think his friends and fellow church goers would have an eye on replacing Michelle because of the "work" involved with the number of kids (scare quotes because Jana, Jinger, and Joy do the work, not because it isn't real) and constantly be introducing him to women. In order to get everyone off his ass, I think he'd pick a decent candidate and that poor woman would live in Michelle's shadow for the rest of her days, never measuring up to his beloved*.

(*In the case of Sarah Maxwell, probably still a better fate than living her days isolated and under her father's thumb.)