Joy-Anna Duggar Forsyth has never viewed the four-year age difference between herself and husband Austin Forsyth as particularly dramatic, but she understands why it can look different when their relationship is viewed through the ages they were when it began.
The former Counting On star, now 28, revisited her relationship with Austin, 32, during the Aug. 19 episode of her sister Jinger Vuolo's Jinger & Jeremy Podcast. The sisters compared their own marriages and talked about how marrying young shaped the way those age differences felt at the time.
Joy-Anna and Austin first crossed paths as children, when she was about 4 and he was 8. Their families later saw less of one another before reconnecting, and Joy-Anna said she began "crushing hard" on him around age 14, according to PEOPLE's account of the conversation.
Their romantic relationship developed years later, shortly before she turned 18, and they ultimately married in May 2017 when she was 19 and he was 23.
Jinger pointed out that she actually has a larger age difference with her own husband, Jeremy Vuolo, than Joy-Anna has with Austin. Still, the four years separating her sister and brother-in-law always felt more significant to her because she remembered how young Joy-Anna was when the relationship became serious.
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The former Counting On star, now 28, revisited her relationship with Austin, 32, during the Aug. 19 episode of her sister Jinger Vuolo's Jinger & Jeremy Podcast. The sisters compared their own marriages and talked about how marrying young shaped the way those age differences felt at the time.
Joy-Anna and Austin first crossed paths as children, when she was about 4 and he was 8. Their families later saw less of one another before reconnecting, and Joy-Anna said she began "crushing hard" on him around age 14, according to PEOPLE's account of the conversation.
Their romantic relationship developed years later, shortly before she turned 18, and they ultimately married in May 2017 when she was 19 and he was 23.
Jinger pointed out that she actually has a larger age difference with her own husband, Jeremy Vuolo, than Joy-Anna has with Austin. Still, the four years separating her sister and brother-in-law always felt more significant to her because she remembered how young Joy-Anna was when the relationship became serious.
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