Hannah Brown and her fiancé, Adam Woolard, are no longer living in the same house after re-examining their relationship goals.
“We, kind of, went on a journey together,” Brown, 30, said in a Thursday, January 23, Instagram Story video. “I’ve been a believer, but I think I was really questioning a lot about my faith and in God and my direction. Adam had been searching for a while but didn’t have that.”
Woolard, who proposed to the former Bachelorette in August 2023, ultimately decided to get baptized before they both decided to “get so involved in [their] church and really go all-in.”
“We really had to get honest with like, ‘OK, we say we want to go all in with our relationship, like be completely on fire for God, but what are areas that we’re kind of just like holding back?’” Brown said. “There were a few. I mean, finances were hard for me and our just relationship in general could be tough when it comes to believing and honoring what God has for marriage — and that being living together.”
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She continued, “We have lived together [since] eight months into our relationship and we decided to just trust God and we are not living in this house together until we get married this summer. It was obviously a big decision and very different and new, but we both separately were having these thoughts in our prayer and just feeling the Lord to call us to do this.”
According to Brown, their relationship has been “really great” since the pair relocated to separate residences.
“I felt the most connected to Adam that I ever had because we are so intentional about the time that we have together,” she gushed. “[I’m] excited for what God has for our marriage. I really am.”
Brown and Woolard started dating in 2021, three years before getting engaged. Prior to their engagement, they moved from Los Angeles to Nashville. The duo purchased their first home together in October 2024.
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“We’re officially homeowners! Having a house to make a home has been a life dream of mine,” Brown wrote via Instagram at the time. “I am so honored to be able to create spaces that will hold precious memories and to live the big and small life moments between the walls. This house is so sweet already, but to make this OUR family home will be the greatest privilege.”
Just before buying their dream property, Brown told Us Weekly that wedding planning was “on the back burner for a while.”
“There’s been a lot going on,” she exclusively told Us in July 2024. “Right now [I’m] trying to work on wedding planning. I’m excited.”
Now that Brown and Woolard have presumably started preparing for their special day, they are also figuring out what their marriage will look like after walking down the aisle.
“A lot of you guys were asking about the little value session that Adam and I did. Our therapist kind of created this for us and also with her other clients,” Brown added on Thursday. “It’s something that can definitely be a pain point at sometimes. … One thing that [our therapist] Jordan said to us, ‘If you don’t declare your values, your values will still choose you.’ We’re all living a certain way and sometimes there are values we say we want to live, but don’t align with the ones we are living out. And so, I wanted to get really honest with that with ourselves.”
Brown and Woolard were then able to get “clarity on what it is that [they] care about” and figure out how to adapt their lives around those perspectives.
“It was really impactful for us and it’s still something that we’re learning more about,” she added. “I really am just, like, so proud of Adam and I because people that started dating almost four years ago are not the same people now.”
