Jill Dillard (née Duggar) shared an update about where she stands with parents Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar amid their estrangement.
While participating in a Q&A via Instagram on November 2, one fan asked Jill, 33, what her relationship with Jim Bob, 59, and Michelle, 58, is like today following years of issues.
She said that their relationship was “complicated,” adding, “I feel like we are in a rebuilding phase now with healthy boundaries still in place.”
“We try to hang out whenever it works well and we have the bandwidth to navigate things,” Jill concluded while adding a pink heart emoji.
After PEOPLE posted the news about the Duggar family’s holiday celebration on Instagram, Dillard took to the comments to clarify the rumors. Dillard addressed the pictures shared by his brother-in-law, James Duggar, which featured him and his wife speaking with Jim Bob Duggar. According to Dillard, his father-in-law approached him at the Christmas party for 5 minutes. But Dillard claimed that they were not “mingling” as the news report suggested.
In the caption, Dillard noted that there were over 100 people at the celebration and that it wasn’t the intimate family gathering that the public was making it out to be. In Dillard’s exact words: “We’re trying to be civil for the sake of our family, but that doesn’t mean everything is all hunky dorey.” The reality star stressed that he does not have any respect for Jim Bob Duggar and wasn’t going to let people “warp reality.”
