Counting On star Jason Duggar and his wife, Maddie, recently revealed a major courtship rule they broke before marriage.
On Oct. 3, Jason, 25, and Maddie, 21, said "I do" in a fall-themed Tennessee wedding—but as it turns out, the 12th-born child of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggaropted out of courting altogether and instead went the traditional dating route.
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"We dated," Jason revealed in an April 25 video published on his and Maddie's joint YouTube channel. "We didn't, like, have a chaperone or anything. We did always try to be wise."
Maddie explained, "We tried to use wisdom but we're both adults also and we have our own convictions. And I think it's up to us in between our relationship to hold each other accountable to the boundaries that we do set."
That's when the newlyweds made their bold admission: Unlike Jason's siblings (as far as they've publicly shared), Jason and Maddie kissed before their wedding day.
"So the question everyone's been waiting for: Did we kiss before our wedding day?" Maddie said during the Q&A video.
"We did," Jason shared.
"Growing up in my family, that was against the rules. But for Maddie and I, that's not a conviction that we have," Jason said.
However, the former TLC reality star clarified, "I love my parents/ I think they're great people. But it's a rule that we set for ourselves and our relationship through dating and engagement. And it was something we were OK with."
Unlike the Duggar siblings—who were homeschooled, grew up in a family with 19 kids and were raised under the Institute for Basic Life Principles (IBLP)—Maddie went to public school, only has one brother and noted that kissing was not against the rules.
"I mean, it wasn't encouraged to go out and kiss everyone. It was special," she shared. "But it wasn't against the rules, either. So, we talked about it and I was like, 'Hey, I totally respect if you don't want to kiss, like, until later on.'"
"So then I kissed you pretty quick thereafter," Jason confessed as they both laughed. "It didn't last long."
In other news, Maddie clarified that she is not pregnant.
"No! I am very thankful," she said. "We are not expecting. We will tell you guys when we are expecting."
In fact, Maddie said they don't want to have children "for a while," and declared "absolutely not" about having 19 kids of their own.
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