Jessa Duggar and husband Ben Seewald's love story keeps counting on. Jessa, one of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar's 19 children, met Seewald at church when they were 20 and 17, respectively. "We went up from central Arkansas [where we lived] to the northwest part of the state, where her family lived," Seewald recalled of his parents and siblings on a May 2025 episode of sister-in-law Jinger Duggar's eponymous podcast. "We had a connection between our families [in] a mutual friend. We ended up going to her family's church that Sunday, and that was our first real interaction, which wasn't much.