Bachelor Nation’s Madi Prewett and now-husband Grant Troutt were intentional with their relationship from the very beginning.
“Grant and I were very attracted to each other, and that was a really hard thing we had to fight,” Prewett, 29, said on the Monday, September 22, episode of her “Stay True” podcast. “I remember we literally created a purity contract and I gave it to Jeanine [Amapola, my friend] and I said, ‘You have to hold me accountable.’”
Prewett started dating Troutt, also 29, in 2021, during which they were both interested in pursuing a physical relationship. (Prewett, a devout Christian, planned to save sex for marriage.)
“Every time I’m with him, I want to lay down on the couch [and] I want to fool around. I want to mess around [and] I want to make out,” Prewett recalled. “I want all those things because I’m sinful and I have a flesh, and it has feelings; it has desires. When I listen to it, it always leads to shame and it creates division in our relationship.”
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She continued, “When I pursue purity, even though that’s the harder thing, it actually creates more clarity for our relationship. It creates more clarity for our future. When we were falling into sexual sin and temptation in our dating relationship, what happened was not unity [and] what happened was division.”
According to Prewett, any “sexual sin” would lead her and Troutt to question whether they could have a lasting, God-fearing relationship.
“What happened was a question of, ‘Well, now I don’t know [whether] you can lead me,’” she said. “I [didn’t] know, can we do this? I’ve heard it said, like, if you’re not pursuing purity in marriage, who’s to say you’re going to pursue purity in marriage. That’s why it is so important to get a hold of it in singleness and in dating, but also to keep pursuing it in marriage because it doesn’t go away.”
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Prewett and Troutt ultimately did wait to have sex until they got married in October 2022. The pair, who welcomed daughter Hosanna in January, still pursue purity as they navigate married life.
“When we first got married, I think I expected him to just know all of my needs and desires and that was very unfair to him,” Prewett exclusively told Us Weekly in July 2023. “And so I finally had to get to a point where I was like, ‘Hey, when I come home from a three or four-day trip, I would love to have the whole evening with just you. I want us to eat a meal together. I want us to ask intentional questions together and just enjoy an evening.’ And I had to really learn to communicate that because that wasn’t something he just could understand on his own. We’ve learned the importance of communication through trial and error. … I think just having grace for each other and patience for each other is so important.”
Prewett further told Us that she tries to be “the wife that God’s called me to be.”
