For Jill (Duggar) Dillard, it seems that home sweet home is not where her parents reside.
The former "Counting On" star revealed in a Q&A video that she and her husband, Derrick Dillard, haven't been to Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar's Arkansas home — dubbed "the big house" — in "a couple years."
"We haven't actually been over there in a while, probably like a couple years, other than once … to check the mail," she said in the video shared on the couple's YouTube channel.
Jill noted that the coronavirus pandemic has been a reason for the distance with her ultra-conservative parents, but not all of it.
"In this season of life, we have to prioritize our mental and emotional health," she said. "Our threshold — we like to call it — is a little bit lower in this season of life for us."
Derrick added, "There's a lot of triggers there."
Jill's slow detachment from her family, who are devout independent Baptists, has been reported for the past several months. The 29-year-old has been open about drinking alcohol, going to therapy, drinking caffeine and using birth control, which her parents frown upon.
Jill's parents swore off birth control after welcoming their first child, Josh, in 1988, and have famously said they want God to decide how many children they should have. Jim Bob and Michelle, who share 19 biological children, have passed on their stringent beliefs to their kids.
Last fall, Jill told People magazine she was "distancing" herself from her family and that it was "difficult."
"We're not on the best terms with some of my family. We've had some disagreements, but we're working towards healing definitely and restoration, but we're having to kind of just take some time and heal," she said. "We're doing what's best for our family right now and just working through it, I guess. We are praying and trusting God that like, the timeline is his and what that looks like and everything."
Around the same time Jill admitted that her family is "not always" supportive of her decisions but she refuses to be "led by fear" and "controlled by what somebody else is gonna think."
"Are they supportive? Not always," she said in a Q&A video. "Everyone's gonna have their opinion about different things. Some of my siblings are probably more likely to have something to say about it than others. Some are more like, 'Hey, I'm happy for whatever y'all are deciding.' Not all of them are cool with it but some of them are more cool with it than others."