The Baccalaureate alum Maddie Prewett he has found his role within the marriage.
“I learned a lot about being a submissive woman, which was a challenge for me at first,” Prewett, 29, said on the Monday, Dec. 1 episode of her “Stay True.” podcasttalking about his journey as Grant Trouttthe wife of “Now, it’s, like, my favorite thing. I love talking about submission.”
Prewett and Troutt, also 29, it started coming out in 2021became engaged in August 2022. The couple married several months later.
“The engagement was difficult for us in a lot of different ways. There was a lot going on, even in our personal lives outside of engagement season,” Prewett told the podcast guest. Bryce Crawfordreflecting on their whirlwind relationship. “(Grant’s) grandmother passed away (and) there was a lot going on in a short amount of time.”
She added: “We had a three-month engagement. The world thought we were crazy. Maybe we were a little crazy, but we were also really excited to get married.”
According to Prewett, she fought harder his journey of purity once Troutt proposed. (The couple had promised to save sex for marriage.)
“I think a ring on my finger was, like, ‘Man, it almost feels like we’re married,'” he recalled of his biggest temptations. “To all engaged couples listening to this podcast, set extra boundaries and hold your partners accountable.”
Prewett, who rose to fame Peter Weberthe season of The Baccalaureatewent on to lay out her best advice for newlyweds.
Bachelor Nation’s Madi Prewett and now-husband Grant Troutt were intentional about their relationship from the start. “Grant and I were very attracted to each other, and it was a very difficult thing that we had to fight,” Prewett, 29, said on the Monday, Sept. 22, episode of his “Stay True” podcast. “I remember that literally (…)
“Fighting to come together and not being right. That was one of the hardest things for me when we first got married,” she stated. “I just wanted to be right all the time, and it was my way or the highway. I learned a lot through prayer and humbling myself before God. He said, ‘Actually, you’ve got a lot of junk to sort out.’ It was very sanctifying.”
Prewett also learned key insights on how to manage her daily life as a woman.
“When we got married, I thought that every morning we would get up (and) spend some quiet time together. We would ask each other intentional questions,” she said. Dare to be true said the author. “He says, ‘No, I’m going to the coffee shop and I’m having my quiet time. You stand alone with the Lord (and) I stand alone with the Lord.” I just learned, ‘Wow, I can’t try to get what only God can give me (my husband). I have to get that from God first.’
Prewett also found that praying with Troutt daily “totally changed it.”
“Our first six months of marriage were really rough and tough,” Prewett said. “It was very exposing the sins of nature that I thought I had dealt with, and then it came up again. Praying together was very unifying and helped us fight spiritual warfare.”
Prewett acknowledged that despite their three-year marriage, she and Troutt have already “learned a lot in these three years.”
“Marriage is the most beautiful, humble and refined wild adventure (and) the best friendship,” he added. “It’s just, like, the best.”
Prewett and Troutt welcomed their first childdaughter Hosanna, in January.