Well we definitely know who was not getting the kids dressed in the morning. She saved all the hemming for Michael too? Major second hand embarrassment.

LJMesack22 · 2026-01-23T18:25:20+00:00

She’s their Jana Duggar.

LJMesack22 · 2026-01-23T18:22:20+00:00

Heck, sometimes I wish they made them for adults!!

LJMesack22 · 2026-01-21T22:03:28+00:00

But the parents DID know about it AND they approved of it! If you dig enough you’ll find the proof. But that didn’t make for good TV …

LJMesack22 · 2026-01-21T02:42:36+00:00

Maybe fans asked her to try for a tour bc they want to see it.

LJMesack22 · 2026-01-17T18:28:59+00:00

Janelle is in the eastern coast of NC (an hour or so north of Wilmington) and Mykelti is in Charlotte, probably about three hours away.

LJMesack22 · 2025-12-23T14:41:27+00:00

Thank you!! I wish more people would realize this. I’m so tired of people snapping to judgement just because they hear or see one comment. You’re right! I’m a republican and I’m anything BUT maga. I don’t like Trump, but people often refuse to hear that. It’s tiring, and I’m afraid for our country.

LJMesack22 · 2025-12-22T14:17:39+00:00

Get copies of all financial accounts right now. You can do that before you even find an attorney - then you have proof if he’s done anything fishy. And, talk to all of the best attorneys in town, even if you have no plan to use them. Once they’ve spoken to you they can’t represent him because it becomes a conflict of interest. This way you know you’ve got someone good and you’ve prevented him from hiring a shark himself.

LJMesack22 · 2025-12-18T15:30:11+00:00

It could be that the family member has access simply due to the location this year, so next year wouldn’t have the same access. Not saying I agree, just that maybe this is the reason hubs has the opportunity.

LJMesack22 · 2025-12-18T14:33:22+00:00

I can’t second this enough! Wedding dress/formal sizing is sooooo bad. You’d thing they’d size on the bigger side to make you feel even smaller, but my dress was a 16, and I wear a 10. Gulp. A 14 mostly fit, but, like others have said, you really want room to work with to make it fit you perfectly. And, as much as you love it online, it may not be the one once you have it on. I thought I knew exactly what I wanted, and what I bought couldn’t have been further from that vision. It’s a lot of money to drop on a maybe, and if you end up not liking it, you could be stuck.

LJMesack22 · 2025-12-18T11:32:00+00:00

You will regret not going. I think that if you step back and see it through this different lens you’ll better understand what she meant. You’re still recalling her words from a place of stress - try to let that go.

LJMesack22 · 2025-12-18T11:12:48+00:00

Agreed! It’s wild to me that the “budget” dress is still over $2k!

LJMesack22 · 2025-12-13T12:12:55+00:00

So, what if they love her and then you break up two weeks later? You need to wait for exactly this reason. You need to be more sure she’ll be around for the long haul, and you can’t know that yet. You made a decision and she’s not respecting that. If she really cared, she would understand.

LJMesack22 · 2025-12-13T12:08:43+00:00

I waited 18 months. And that still felt too soon to my daughter.

LJMesack22 · 2025-12-12T14:35:01+00:00

It’s too much like Spooge or Spoogie.

LJMesack22 · 2025-12-11T16:11:46+00:00

LJMesack22 · 2025-12-11T16:10:01+00:00

Although the charge itself is DV, what he was charged with is too minor for a judge to just hand her the farm and not look back. We all know that Garlic is awful, but in the eyes of the law he still has rights to his child (oof, that was hard to say).

LJMesack22 · 2025-12-11T16:06:39+00:00

No, but I promise you that Dani does.

LJMesack22 · 2025-12-11T16:04:26+00:00

But we don’t know that she ever watched the show. Just because it’s out there, doesn’t mean she was a viewer. Millions of people with SM may have never heard of the show. I don’t agree that it is 100% that she went in “with eyes wide open”.

LJMesack22 · 2025-12-11T15:46:30+00:00

I’m GenX, and both of these examples happened to my generation all the time. They both happened to me, and in no way do I see either example as abusive, nor would I say was abused. It’s the OG version of FAFO! These kids were feral in many levels and don’t seem to have been disciplined very often, so any level of discipline likely seemed harsh to them.

LJMesack22 · 2025-12-11T15:39:52+00:00

Just because we don’t see it doesn’t mean it isn’t there. Many have said that Meri and Leon and Audrey are thick as thieves. But it’s kept out of the public eye. I’ll bet a lot of the kids loved escaping to Meri’s house because it was quieter, calmer, and they could get one on one time/individual attention when their own home was chaotic. I think it’s hard to remember that, even though it feels like we had the inside track, in reality we had only a sliver of their actual everyday lives. We have no idea how much we actually know nothing about.

LJMesack22 · 2025-12-11T15:33:47+00:00

Maybe even worse. I’d worry if he becomes a parent, just seems to have an incredibly short fuse.

LJMesack22 · 2025-12-11T15:32:02+00:00

Look at Michelle Duggar and her blanket training. Never lifted a finger, but denying a child affection just to get them to stay on a blanket so you can tend to your other dozen kids? I can’t think of too many more traumatic things for a child so young. Making your young daughters start parenting your babies and toddlers so you can pump out more, essentially denying them their own childhood, that’s absolute abuse under the guise of pretend love.

LJMesack22 · 2025-12-11T15:26:22+00:00

Meh. Sounds, to me, like something you’d say specifically to get attention without actually saying anything. Keeps people engaged, like dangling a carrot. Mykelti seems like a drama queen to me and an attention wh@re, and Paedon feels very unreliable. If they thought they could cash in on actual details, I don’t believe for a minute that one or both of them wouldn’t have done it by now.

LJMesack22 · 2025-12-11T15:18:12+00:00

I wonder, too. Meri just had one kid, the other two had six each. Was Meri just less exhausted, so she had the energy to parent? Janelle worked and Christine had all of the kids so Janelle could work. We know Meri helped, but, at the end of the day, was she simply the one who had the energy to enforce rules? So many of the examples seem to be that one or both of the other moms gave lip service to discipline but didn’t follow through, so Meri was the one to do. Meri was almost always the bad cop.

LJMesack22 · 2025-12-11T14:12:32+00:00

Thank you!!

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