Ah, Uncle Joe. Your inability to toe the party line is what convinced Obama to put up or shut up about gay marriage, so rock on.

These fuckers.

I don’t know how you go anywhere or do anything with four kids under the age of what, like 5? With no job and no education.

Especially if the porn star’s account is true. If he likes sex as rough and degrading as she says, and Anna has never had any other sexual experiences before, no discussion, no other personal or secondhand account to go off of, and she is also just expected to submit, I can see all of that going very south very fast.…

their methods aren’t evidence-based

I think no snark is the appropriate response. This shit is so sad. And it has to be looked at through the lens of the cult. She was raised in a cult, she has lived in one her whole life. She is quite literally brain washed. It breaks my heart. It is so difficult to get away from any cult, much less one that you've…

And Bible study is obviously what he needs. It’s the one thing that was missing from his upbringing!

I read somewhere else that she doesn’t have access to media/internet to shelter her. It’s very sad. Her parents are pushing her to stay married to that douchebag. 2 of her siblings are supportive of her divorcing so I hope she has contact with them and is able to come up with a game plan to leave josh.

I think he definitely needs treatment! But it needs to be cognitive behavioral therapy so that he can learn to actually empathize with others and take responsibility for his own actions. “Sin” and “temptation” are not to blame for him molesting those little girls or for his extramarital affairs: only he is to blame…

*sigh* is it bad that when I read about the Ashley Madison account, all I could imagine was Michelle blaming Anna for not submitting to her husband for sex whenever he wants and if she had only done that this wouldn’t have happened?

There are women at that ‘treatment center’, too.

This had never occurred to me and makes so much tragic and awful sense.

Someone asked me if I thought he really had a sex addiction, and I said, “no...I think he’s a human.”

Maybe I’m rusty from being away for so long, but I have no snark for her. I legitimately feel sorry for her. To feel so trapped that you can’t leave your husband after you find out he’s molested 5 little girls, most being his sisters, is a horror I could never imagine. His infidelity is just the sick cherry on top of…

I just read that although Anna was told before their wedding about his abuse of his sisters, that she’s not thought to have understood the words used. Like, she doesn’t know the extent of the abuse because the Duggars lied and minimized it, but also because she doesn’t understand what words like “sexual abuse” and…

Bible study and 9 hours of work per day. And this is different than what he was doing before how?

I feel horrible for Anna. She is in a tough situation, and one where I don’t think she knows how to deal with properly. She needs to start having conversations with a therapist who will listen for more than 15 minutes a week.

as disgusting as i think these religious cults are, i feel really sorry for her and the other women brought up this way. they don’t know any better, they’ve never had the chance to get a decent education, learn and process other viewpoints, or think for themselves. they have no skills that would serve them in the…

Are you some kind of celebrity? Cheating on your wife? Get caught? Do you masturbate at least three times a week? Congrats! It’s not your fault! You have a disease. A sex addition disease! A disease so subtle, it didn’t interfere with your life until you got caught with egg on your face! Come to our rehab center to…

I’m so glad he is being sent away to camp, especially considering how wonderfully that worked the first time after the sister incident. He never strayed again!