BACHELOR star Madi Prewett Troutt says spiritual intimacy is more bonding than physical intimacy.
“We started praying together every single night and just the unity that that creates – like obviously we think about, you know, sex and sexual intimacy being such a unifying thing,” she said of her marriage to husband Grant Troutt. “And it is. And I would say the most intimate thing is spiritual intimacy.”
Troutt believes it’s important for married couples to create closeness through prayer.
“We pray together every single night before bed. That changed our marriage so much,” she said.
She admitted the first year of marriage was difficult. She and Grant saw the best and worst sides of each other.
“I went from just complaining and frustrated all the time with just, you know, ‘Why are we fighting? Why are we having the same conversations again and again? Why doesn’t he get me?’ Or whatever it may be, right?” Troutt recalled.
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When the couple began to pray together every night, their focus shifted off of themselves and onto each other. They became closer and better spouses to one another. She also thinks it’s powerful to journey through faith together instead of separately.
Earlier this year, Troutt shared that one of her hardest struggles was sexual sin. When she confessed her sin to God, she realized that she had always had the choice not to fall into temptation.
She said, “There’s never going to be a situation where on one side I have to choose sin and on the other side I have to choose sin. You will always be presented with an opportunity to choose holiness.”
She and her husband recently made the decision to step off social media. It’s a decision that she says is “freeing” and the best one she’s ever made. She doesn’t regret a day that she doesn’t log in to see what others are saying.
“I just wanted to be at this place where I’m like, ‘Madi is enough as a mom, as a wife, as a friend, as a human being, apart from anything she can produce that is seen and praised by other people or criticized and hated by other people,’” she said, and now she’s there.
Jan. 4 was her last post on social media, when she announced that she was leaving it.
She said, “2026 — the year we actually do something about the things that keep us from true rest and peace. So often we just complain about the things that keep us further from God, confidence, and living our life full of peace and purpose…and yet do nothing about it. For me, that’s taking a break from social media.”
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