Madison Prewett Says She Felt Like Her Old Life Was ‘Dying’ While Adjusting to Marriage with Grant Troutt

Married life is off to a good start for Madison Prewett Troutt — and yet, she admits that adjusting to it all hasn’t come without a hitch.

The love that everyone wants The 27-year-old author had something of a whirlwind courtship, marrying Grant Troutt in Dallas last October 2022 — three months after Grant proposed just eight months into their relationship.

And while their first year of marriage “was amazing,” Madison opened up exclusively to PEOPLE about some of the couple’s earliest challenges.

“I will say that the first three to six months were difficult,” she admits. “I think the reason it was difficult was something that a lot of people don’t often talk about, and I feel like when you get married, there’s a beautiful celebration and coming together, but there’s also this dying to the old life.”

She explains, “You’re dying from your single life. You’re dying from, in a way, your old ways of living and thinking about certain things. I think that was something not many people talked about when I got married.”

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(LR) Madison Prewett Troutt and Grant Troutt pictured at their October 2022 wedding in Dallas, Texas.

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Madison says she and Grant “both had to learn how to have the healthiest and best marriage by continuing to lay down our lives for each other and serve each other.”

“It meant continuing to die for our old life and our old way of living,” she continues. “When I was used to being a girl, it was, ‘Know what you deserve. Tell that man to serve you and ask for you,’ which I still hold onto and talk about in my book, but what’s interesting about marriage is almost the inverted perspective I can’t just wait for you to serve me and follow me. Now I’m called to serve you and follow you too.”

Former Bachelor contestant adds, “I think it was quite a shift in mindset and an adjustment that we both had to make. But then when that mindset flipped and we came to not just looking to get from each other, we wanted to give and serve , really, our marriage has just become the strongest, healthiest.”

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(LR) Madison Prewett Troutt and Grant Trout are pictured posing together in June 2022. Madison Prewett/Instagram

Now, Madison says the duo are “each other’s best friends.”

“We just believe in each other wholeheartedly, and we continue to push each other and make each other better and challenge each other and laugh together,” she shares. “I think that’s what’s so important because there’s this two-sided coin where half of a relationship should really be joy and laughter and being each other’s best friends. But then the other half should really push each other and make each other better at purpose and closer to each other’s faith.”

Madison Prewett recalls how she overcame the ‘wretchedness’ of being single as she began writing a new book about self-love

Cover photo for Madison Prewett Troutt’s latest book, ‘The Love Everyone Wants: What You Seek Is Already Yours’.

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Movement in romantic relationships is a focal point for The love that everyone wants: what you seek is already yours. The self-love book, which was released on Tuesday, aims to help readers understand the foundations of love and gain a sense of self-worth.

“I actually started writing this book single, but over time I ended up dating my now-husband,” she says. “I really hit every relationship status, from single and miserable to watching all my friends get married and grabbing 15 wedding bouquets, to starting dating and evaluating and figuring out and moving on if this is the person I want to spend the rest of my life with , and then finish the manuscript two months after the wedding. By God’s grace, I was really able to touch on every single relationship status and do it right from an authentic place.”

“I know that when I was single, one of the hardest things for me was the fact that the people I got advice from or listened to were 30 years older than me and had been married for 50 years or more,” she adds. “As much as I loved it and still read those books and they’ve helped me through so many seasons, I’ve always longed for someone who I felt could understand where I was. It’s something I was very passionate about when I started writing this message. .”

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