I really enjoyed listening to this Audiobook narrated by Jill Dillard.
It was heart-wrenching.
I don't know what I was expecting, but listening to Jill's words - her emotions balanced between the life she wanted to live as an independent adult with a growing family of her own- and the conflict of discovering not everything was what she thought- Yet still was in so many ways. It was emotional because she is so human in expressing her feelings.
We forget that she was a child during most of the reality TV exposure and isolated in her family's lifestyle. A lifestyle she was raised from birth.
Her love of her Parents and the rest of her family is very apparent; as the listener, you feel her emotions in her words.
I guess I expected this to be a tell-all book that paints everything ugly from her past- but it doesn't. Not at all. Which makes it more heart-wrenching at the same time. – and real
I hope she, Derek and her parents can find peace and come together as united families once more.
Bravery comes in many forms; sometimes, it's just standing up for yourself and saying I love you, but not everything you have done. Both can exist and be true at the same time.
Jill's words will resonate with a much larger scale of people than she thinks. Not because of her reality tv show- not because of her religious upbringing but because of something most of us deal with. Families. Families are complex.
They don’t come in just Good and Bad, but everything in the middle.