By Mallory Mattingly
“Follower of Jesus” and former BACHELOR alum Madison Prewett Troutt revealed why it’s “so easy to submit” to her husband, Grant Troutt.
“I say often, like, when you love God the most, then you can love your spouse the best,” Prewett Troutt 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?’” she continued.
Last year, Prewett Troutt said that being a “submissive wife” is her “favorite thing.”
After she received online backlash, she quickly clarified her comments.
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“When you 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 said of submission. “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.”
“It’s not exercising this dominant power and authority … over someone. It doesn’t mean that the wife is weak or passive or has no voice or is not equal with the husband,” she explained. “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.”
Troutt is the “spiritual leader” in their home, which is something he takes pride in, but is also someone Prewett Troutt gets to follow.
“When I think about it, Grant is the provider and protector of the home,” she explained. “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.”
The couple have been together since 2021, were married the next year and welcomed their daughter, Hosanna, in 2025.
Hosanna’s birth changed the Troutts’ marriage.
“I mean, so much changed at one time, and that was really overwhelming,” Prewett Troutt told Allen. “Something that grew so much for me, and Grant can testify to this, was [that] I didn’t get those long times in the word like I used to, but what I started doing was memorizing chunks of scripture because I had my Bible or my phone by me while I was breast-feeding…that I was able to just like sit there and meditate on scripture.”
While submission is a controversial topic, the Troutts know they’re following God’s commands.
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