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diabeticman

(3,121 posts)
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 09:21 AM Aug 2015

Anna Duggar ‘partly blames herself’ and will never leave her cheating anti-LGBT activist husband

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/anna-duggar-partly-blames-herself-and-will-never-leave-her-cheating-anti-lgbt-activist-husband-source/


Anna Duggar won’t likely leave her husband despite his admitted cheating and will instead blame herself, according to a new report.

Josh Duggar, the former reality TV star and anti-LGBT activist, admitted Thursday to an addiction to pornography and infidelity after reports revealed he paid for two accounts on the adultery website Ashley Madison.


This comes three months after revelations that he molested four of his sisters and a family friend as they slept more than a decade ago, when he was a teenager.

A source told People magazine that Anna Duggar, who gave birth last month to the couple’s fourth child, would likely “absorb some of the blame” for her husband’s cheating.

“Anna will not leave him,” the source said. “As with her in-laws, she is turning more to her faith than ever. She and Josh are probably praying around the clock right now, I would assume.”

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I am not anti-religion. I will defend your right to believe whatever you want BUT honestly sometimes with these fundies you have to wonder if their "beliefs" are more dangerous than helpful.

This is the whole Blame the female because she is the sex that created the greatest sin/we need to control dominate and treated like crap!
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Anna Duggar ‘partly blames herself’ and will never leave her cheating anti-LGBT activist husband (Original Post) diabeticman Aug 2015 OP
I feel sorry for her Stargazer09 Aug 2015 #1
It's hard not to Johonny Aug 2015 #15
Once a child molester, always a child molester nichomachus Aug 2015 #19
This message was self-deleted by its author Xithras Aug 2015 #42
surprised she doesn't blame the internet porn industry, thats the root of the problem with her 'man' Sunlei Aug 2015 #2
The root? Cal Carpenter Aug 2015 #8
You are right, but Josh Duggar tried to make it sound like it was the root of his problem Chiyo-chichi Aug 2015 #13
Ah, thanks, I haven't been paying close attention so I didn't catch that. Cal Carpenter Aug 2015 #24
Probably sarcasm PJMcK Aug 2015 #14
Gotcha. Guess I was a little tone deaf this morning Cal Carpenter Aug 2015 #25
She is completely brainwashed CanonRay Aug 2015 #3
Who is the source? Beaverhausen Aug 2015 #4
"She and Josh are probably preying around the clock now, I would assume" waddirum Aug 2015 #5
She'll blame herself when he molests his daughters too Bettie Aug 2015 #9
I fear you are correct. hamsterjill Aug 2015 #41
The problem is that she's been programmed Bettie Aug 2015 #44
"Preying around the clock?" Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #40
Is this what Raw Story is up to these days? Enquirer-like stories in which an unnamed source alcibiades_mystery Aug 2015 #6
pretty much sums up my reaction to this. Josh Duggar is disgusting msanthrope Aug 2015 #21
Raw Story was always crap, it just looks like you finally smelt it. Rex Aug 2015 #30
Dear Anna, catrose Aug 2015 #7
?".... N_E_1 for Tennis Aug 2015 #39
Maybe give her a few weeks to recover catrose Aug 2015 #43
Even as an atheist i feel it is not the religion that is poisonous it is the culture. CBGLuthier Aug 2015 #10
It's the authoritarian patriarchal mindset. yardwork Aug 2015 #11
My family is matriarchal religious. My great grandmas were all very strong Christian women... hunter Aug 2015 #38
Rec your comment. yardwork Aug 2015 #12
Religion, make believe for grownups! George Carlin nt Logical Aug 2015 #16
That family is so twisted. leftyladyfrommo Aug 2015 #17
This is what happens when you're brainwashed into a culture that considers women chattel. hobbit709 Aug 2015 #18
''Sex is the poor man's opera.'' -- George Bernard Shaw Octafish Aug 2015 #20
I don't really read a lot of these stories indepth, logosoco Aug 2015 #22
She apparently didn't follow the advice her mother-in-law gave Kaleva Aug 2015 #23
When does a relationship like this border on Stockholm Syndrome? Initech Aug 2015 #26
When I wonder how ANY Woman could EVER vote for ANY republican, I will remember this randys1 Aug 2015 #27
Josh Duggar needs to leave the reservation for good roscoeroscoe Aug 2015 #28
Stockholm syndrome. Jester Messiah Aug 2015 #29
The wife is the victim of the cheating by her husband Gothmog Aug 2015 #31
I don't care, she can be that way the rest of her life...go for it moran! Rex Aug 2015 #32
Idiots gonna idiot. hifiguy Aug 2015 #33
People like this awoke_in_2003 Aug 2015 #34
None of my business. n/t DefenseLawyer Aug 2015 #35
This will get worse... VMA131Marine Aug 2015 #36
It's sad that she partly blames herself. City Lights Aug 2015 #37

Stargazer09

(2,132 posts)
1. I feel sorry for her
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 09:27 AM
Aug 2015

It will be very difficult for her to escape that horrible, abusive marriage. She has four young children, and unless her family is willing to help her, she probably has nowhere to go.

With that said, if he truly told her before they were married that he molested his sisters, she may be too far into that awful culture to even think about getting out.

Johonny

(20,849 posts)
15. It's hard not to
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 10:53 AM
Aug 2015

She likely born into a "faith" society that teaches her to accept these things, have lots of kids, and look/act a certain way. Sadly she is turning to that faith for more help. Ugh.

nichomachus

(12,754 posts)
19. Once a child molester, always a child molester
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 11:19 AM
Aug 2015

If she really cares for those kids, she'd get them as far away from Josh as humanly possible.

Response to nichomachus (Reply #19)

Cal Carpenter

(4,959 posts)
8. The root?
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 10:10 AM
Aug 2015

This guy molested his sisters when he was a teenager. He cheated on his wife. I don't think internet porn is the 'root' of his problem. Another symptom, perhaps, but not the root.

Chiyo-chichi

(3,580 posts)
13. You are right, but Josh Duggar tried to make it sound like it was the root of his problem
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 10:49 AM
Aug 2015

in his "apology" statement yesterday.

PJMcK

(22,035 posts)
14. Probably sarcasm
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 10:51 AM
Aug 2015

At least that's how I read Sunlei's post. After all, without porn, the Internet wouldn't be much fun, would it? (wink)

waddirum

(979 posts)
5. "She and Josh are probably preying around the clock now, I would assume"
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 09:49 AM
Aug 2015

They are both predators. She is complicit, essentially giving him the green light for his awful behavior.

Bettie

(16,104 posts)
9. She'll blame herself when he molests his daughters too
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 10:12 AM
Aug 2015

and he will, if he hasn't already. Those types do not change.

hamsterjill

(15,220 posts)
41. I fear you are correct.
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 02:55 PM
Aug 2015

There's something sick and twisted about Josh. I realize that is the understatement of the year! But it's not only that he's done the horrible things that he's admitted to doing, it's the "I have sinned" confession coming so quickly. He's deeply in need of the spotlight and attention, something he obviously never got growing up in a house with 18 other siblings.

I think he'll molest his daughters down the line, if for no other reason than to be able to have more publicity. Anna Duggar is (indeed) in a difficult situation and I realize it would be difficult for her to leave him, but in my opinion, her duty as the mother of those children should trump anything else and she needs to get the hell away from that creep to protect her children.

Bettie

(16,104 posts)
44. The problem is that she's been programmed
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 06:04 PM
Aug 2015

to believe that any "straying" he does, either with hookers, porn, or her children, is all her fault for not being "enough".

Just saw a thing on KOS with the statement: "Sex is like pre-chewed chewing gum ... Is that what you want to present to your husband?"

The thing is, the boys/men are taught that once they've "chewed that gum" it is worthless except as a vehicle for child production.

In the end, she'll never leave him, because doing so would show his family, her family, and everyone she actually knows that she wasn't "good enough" to hold his interest.

I have a very cynical view of extremely religious families I guess.

 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
6. Is this what Raw Story is up to these days? Enquirer-like stories in which an unnamed source
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 09:51 AM
Aug 2015

speculates about the goings-on in the home of former reality show quasi-celebrities?

My, my. How have the mighty fallen.

 

msanthrope

(37,549 posts)
21. pretty much sums up my reaction to this. Josh Duggar is disgusting
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 11:34 AM
Aug 2015

But this is tabloid level bullshit.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
30. Raw Story was always crap, it just looks like you finally smelt it.
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 12:14 PM
Aug 2015

Fallen from the grate in the sewer into a cesspool is more like it.

N_E_1 for Tennis

(9,722 posts)
39. ?"....
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 02:37 PM
Aug 2015

Dear Anna,
No it's not your fault. But you are an enabler.
Get help!
He is to blame but you had a large part in it.
Can't see that?
Get help.

CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)
10. Even as an atheist i feel it is not the religion that is poisonous it is the culture.
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 10:42 AM
Aug 2015

I have very good friends who believe in Jesus and all that and they would never believe women are breeding machines that must accept a man's dominance even when he is a fucking idiot tool scumbag not worthy of anyone's respect.

Same way i feel about some Muslims. Not the religion but the cultural misinterpretation.

hunter

(38,311 posts)
38. My family is matriarchal religious. My great grandmas were all very strong Christian women...
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 02:20 PM
Aug 2015

... masters of their Wild West domains.

It's still like that, and in my wife's family too. Bad men earn Darwin Awards, at best by simple "you are the weakest link" rejection, or at worst by extreme mayhem and call the county sheriff-coroner to clean up the mess.

Genghis Khan may have died like that. Mother Mary and Saint Brigit were very dangerous women too.

From Biblical evidence early Christianity was matriarchal. It took a feckless guy like Paul to reinvent the religion into something acceptable in patriarchal societies, especially Roman society. My Christian-insane-talks-to-God-mom thinks Paul can be a jerk sometimes, and has always said so, making me and my siblings and my supernaturally patient dad frequently uncomfortable in Church. We also had to leave Franco's Spain in the middle of the night once upon a time.

I would never claim such matriarchal religious societies are ideal. Abusive Catholic school teacher and adoption agency and orphanage nuns are not good people.

But the patriarchal Christianity of the Duggar sort seems somehow worse. They live in the same sewers as all the child abusing and other sexually dishonest and closeted freaks.

Anyone who is entirely honest with their enthusiastically consenting "safe sex" adult gay or straight sexual partners is doing no wrong.

It's the cheaters and child molesters who most deserve the scorn of ordinary society.

Josh Duggar is at best a cheater, but more likely worse scum. I wouldn't trust him with children, I'd probably cut off his balls and nail them to the fireplace mantle as a trophy if I was his wife.

leftyladyfrommo

(18,868 posts)
17. That family is so twisted.
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 11:01 AM
Aug 2015

I just saw where they are pitching a new show where they do counseling for sexual abuse.

Lord.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
20. ''Sex is the poor man's opera.'' -- George Bernard Shaw
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 11:23 AM
Aug 2015

And for a guy who's never worked a day in his adult life, Mr. Duggar has done a lot of it.

logosoco

(3,208 posts)
22. I don't really read a lot of these stories indepth,
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 11:41 AM
Aug 2015

but from what I see, I notice they don't seem to talk much about LOVE and care when they are discussing marriage and raising families. That seems to be a word I use often when I speak of these things.

Kaleva

(36,298 posts)
23. She apparently didn't follow the advice her mother-in-law gave
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 11:47 AM
Aug 2015

"Her mother-in-law, Michelle Duggar, advises married women to have sex with their husband whenever he wants.

“Be available,” the 49-year-old said in an interview last year. “Anyone can fix him lunch, but only one person can meet that physical need of love that he has. You always need to be available when he calls.”"

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/anna-duggar-partly-blames-herself-and-will-never-leave-her-cheating-anti-lgbt-activist-husband-source/

Initech

(100,069 posts)
26. When does a relationship like this border on Stockholm Syndrome?
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 12:01 PM
Aug 2015

Anna needs to get out of that relationship and get the kids away from that monster as soon as possible. The Duggars have definitely brainwashed her.

randys1

(16,286 posts)
27. When I wonder how ANY Woman could EVER vote for ANY republican, I will remember this
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 12:08 PM
Aug 2015

the harm done by white heterosexual males, is so overwhelming there is no way to measure it.


Yes, all men regardless of race are potentially horrible, but white men have all the power.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
32. I don't care, she can be that way the rest of her life...go for it moran!
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 12:16 PM
Aug 2015

Stupid morans deserve each other and the shitty tabloid that makes them infamous.

VMA131Marine

(4,139 posts)
36. This will get worse...
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 01:04 PM
Aug 2015

Sooner or later there is going to be a tell-all interview with one or more of the women he cheated with.

City Lights

(25,171 posts)
37. It's sad that she partly blames herself.
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 01:09 PM
Aug 2015

Not really surprising, though, considering the environment in which she lives.

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