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Maddie Prewett The “background” behind her is being revealed “Submissive” Wife Reviews amid a backlash online.
“Grant and I just wanted to talk about something that’s happened since we were talking to a friend on the podcast and I talked about the word ‘obedience’ and it’s started trending and a lot of people are talking about it,” Prewett, 29, began one of her episodes. “Keep it real” Podcast on Sunday, December 14th. “There’s no context and it saddens our hearts and my heart.”
Bachelor Alum notes that she and husband have ‘words’ Grant Trout “Using the Bible” on her podcast can be “very confusing” without explanation.
“If you don’t explain what the Bible says and give context, then you’re just flippantly saying the word and it can be received in a very hurtful way, so we just want to say we’re sorry,” said Prewett, who has been married to Trout, 29, since 2022. “I think sometimes I forget that there are people on the other side of the screen who are listening to this and who have their experiences and what you guys have gone through.”
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Prewett admitted that when some podcast listeners “hear the word submission,” they think of “being abused because of something that happened to[them]or something that[they]saw.”
“When you hear the word, you think of what it means, if you’re a woman, it means oppression, you don’t have a voice, you’re suppressed, you’re controlled,” she explained. “When you hear that word, I think it brings up a lot of different feelings. That’s never what I mean by what the Bible says, and it’s not what we mean by how we live our lives. Our marriage dynamic is not that in any way.”
Trout added that the word “submission” is “very strange” and not what they believe “as it is used in today’s culture,” and Prewett went on to explain that the word “is not misused in the Bible.”
“It’s not about exercising this dominant power and authority over someone,” she said. “It doesn’t mean that the wife is weak or passive or has no voice or is not equal to her husband. That’s not what submission means at all. And it’s not what submission means when we talk about submission in the Bible.”
Trout believes that the word “submission” comes from the Bible’s Ephesians 5, where “Paul lays out the blueprint for a godly, biblical marriage.”
“It starts with two verses for wives, then about six or seven verses for husbands,” he explains. “In these two verses written to wives, it says, ‘Wives shall be subject to their husbands.’ That’s where the word comes from.”
Following Trout’s explanation, Prewett shared how they run their marriage in her own words.
“Grant was the spiritual leader of the family, which doesn’t mean to be oppressive or overbearing, but I think when I think about it, Grant was the provider and protector of the family,” she said. “I’m in his care, not because ‘oh, I have to do this,’ but in a way that makes me feel safe. The next verse in Ephesians 5 is, the man is the head of the household. For me, I give Grant this respect and honor, not because I have to, but because that’s how God calls us and that’s how I’ve truly found to feel the most freeing and fulfilled in our marriage.”
Prewett noted that they hope to “shape (their) marriage in a way that people see Jesus in their relationship.”
“That’s why we get hurt when we say things that might tarnish our marriage or hinder other people from seeing our marriage and say, ‘Man, I want the Jesus they have. I want a marriage that honors God like this,'” she explained. “We never want what we say to stop someone else from going through this.”
Bachelor Nation’s Madi Prewett and now-husband Grant Troutt were intentional about making their relationship work from the beginning. “Grant and I were very attracted to each other, and that was a very difficult thing that we had to overcome,” Prewett, 29, told the “Keeping It Real” podcast on Monday, September 22. “I remember we did (…)
Overall, Prewett said, obeying her means “honor, respect, and treating it like we have equal rights.”
“No one person is more important than another, no one has a louder voice than another, no one has authority over another,” she added. “We have the same rights. We just have different roles. God asks you to sacrifice your lives for each other when you get married, to serve each other. You’re serving the other person. You’re not just thinking about yourself all the time.”
Madi Prewett, Grant Trout and their daughter Hosana
Courtesy of Madi Prewett/InstagramEarlier this month, Prewett was criticized for saying “being a submissive wife” was now her “favorite thing.”
“I learned a lot about how to be a submissive wife, (which) was a challenge for me in the beginning,” she said on the Dec. 1 episode. “Keep it real” podcast. “Now, that’s my favorite thing. I love talking about obedience.”
Many people were upset by Prewett’s comments and shared their thoughts on social media.
“May you never find me in this life,” one user wrote. Instagramwhile another said: ” The Handmaid’s Tale“.