Jinger Duggar‘s husband, Jeremy Vuolo, is opening up a few difficult time within the early days of the pair’s marriage.
Through the Wednesday, July 30, episode of the “Jinger & Jeremy Podcast,” the couple sat down with Lydia Plath and her husband, Zac Wyse, who shared their whirlwind love story with listeners in a two-part interview. Because the dialog concluded, Vuolo, 37, mirrored on going through strain from folks exterior of his relationship with Duggar, 31.
“There was a time in our life, very early on in our marriage, the place we skilled some — I describe it as deep betrayal,” he recalled. “You’ve gotten relationships in your life that floor you, and when these shake or are eliminated, you are feeling like, ‘What am I doing?’”
Vuolo remembered consulting a pastor all through the pair’s hardship. “This was a second once we have been each very deeply unsettled, the place it was like, we each felt that shaking,” he continued. “And I’ll always remember what [the pastor] mentioned. … He mentioned, ‘Jeremy, I feel the Lord’s educating you the best way to stroll alone.’ And never alone like me away from her or us from the Lord, however the two of us having to be dependent upon Him.”
In response to the podcast host, it was “the primary time” he’d shared the story so brazenly. He famous that it occurred round eight years prior — and had nothing to do with both of their households.
“It was folks in my life that [Jinger] had come into and folks I had been actually, like, excited for her to fulfill and interact with,” Vuolo defined. “After which it was like, it was actually troublesome. … However now, wanting again eight years later, we’re in our ninth 12 months of marriage and we’re going, ‘Oh man, these have been the best classes we’ve ever discovered.’ Like, ‘That is the best factor that might have ever occurred to us.’”

Jeremy Vuolo and Jinger Duggar Jeremy Vuolo/Instagram
Vuolo and Duggar tied the knot in 2016 and share three youngsters: daughters Felicity, 6, and Evangeline, 4, and son Finn, 4 months. Duggar mentioned that working by means of these challenges as newlyweds was a “enormous” turning level within the duo’s relationship.
“We have been in a position to attract nearer to one another and … we felt so shut all through our relationship [and] early marriage, however that was a deepening and an entire completely different degree once you stroll by means of ache and hardship collectively,” she mentioned on Wednesday.
The twosome have beforehand been candid about adjusting to their first 12 months of marriage, and Vuolo famous on the podcast that being on actuality TV could have performed a task.
“We appeared again on our first 12 months and thought, ‘That was actually unimaginable,’ however truly, there have been a ton of challenges,” he mentioned. “And numerous them have been assaults from the surface. And it was like, ‘OK, we didn’t count on to be in a conflict zone,’ however we obtained to bunker down and we get to bunker down with one another.”
Vuolo mentioned the challenges solely made him and Duggar stronger. “Actually, getting back from our honeymoon, we walked into — and this once more, was a scenario in Texas, in my scenario — we walked into, like, a conflict zone instantly,” he added. “We’re like, ‘What? Didn’t count on that.’ … However issues like that drew us nearer and accelerated that progress as nicely.”
Sharing some phrases of knowledge for Plath and Wyse, who tied the knot in February, Vuolo mentioned that the important thing to a contented marriage is “selecting to like each other each day.”
“Life is gonna get exhausting and there are gonna be issues that threaten your marriage, and there are gonna be moments the place you don’t really feel the best way you are feeling, however that’s not what love is,” he mentioned. “Love is dictated by a call.”



