By Michaela Gordoni
Madi Prewett Troutt says her husband, Grant Troutt, makes it easy for her to follow Biblical submission.
“I say often, like, when you love God the most, then you can love your spouse the best,” the BACHELOR alum recently said on Jennie Allen’s podcast. “It’s so easy to follow him because of how he follows Jesus.’
“I am a strong personality, but it’s so easy to submit to him because of his submission to Christ, and so, I just trust the spirit on the inside of him and we just have a respect for each other and a seeking of the Lord ourselves that it’s like constantly like, ‘Hey, what do you feel like God’s laying on your heart?’”
After she got familiar with submission as a newlywed, it became one of her favorite subjects.
“When you [often] hear that word, you think of it meaning that if you’re a woman, that it means oppression and that you have no voice and you are silenced and you are controlled,” Prewett Troutt explained. “When you hear that word, I think it can strike a lot of different feelings.”
“That is in no way of how I meant it of what the Bible is saying nor in how we live. Our marriage dynamic is not like that in any way,” she said.
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Submission does not mean having power over someone else, says Prewett Troutt.
“It doesn’t mean that the wife is weak or passive or has no voice or is not equal with the husband. That’s not at all what submission means. Nor is it what we believe submission means when it’s talking about that in the Bible,” she said.
“When I think about it, Grant is the provider and protector of the home. I get to come under his care in a way that’s not like, ‘Oh, I have to,’ but in a way where I feel safe. … For me, there’s this respect and this honoring that I give Grant, not because I have to, because it’s the way in which God calls us to and in the way that I truly have found to feel the freest and the most content in our marriage.”
For Prewett Troutt, submission means letting Grant keep his role as protector.
“For anybody listening, like, the man is the leader, and it’s not a ‘dictatorship man,’ it’s this covering of, I got you,” he said.
Prewett Troutt believes it’s a woman’s nature to rebel against letting her husband take the lead and take care of her in this way.
“We don’t want to submit,” she said. “And we have to fight against that because it is our call as a wife. If you chose to get married and you’re choosing to build your life on the foundation of Jesus Christ, it is your call to submit to your husband and to respect him.”
This is something that she’s believed for years, even before marriage.
In a June 2024 episode of her podcast, she said “As a wife, I’m called to submit, I’m called to respect, I’m called to honor.”
For this reality star, biblical submission is not about staying meek or small. It’s about respect, honor and a marriage rooted in trust and spiritual commitment.
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