‘Bachelor’ Alum Madi Prewett Says She Loves Being ‘a Submissive Wife’

The Bachelor alum Madi Prewett is loving being “a submissive wife.”

While speaking on the Monday, Dec. 1 episode of her Stay True Podcast, Prewett, 29 — who was runner-up on season 24 of The Bachelor in 2020 — spoke to her husband Grant Troutt and guest Bryce Crawford about marriage and the latter’s engagement to Maddy Dodd.

Prewett said on the podcast that she’d “learned a lot” about being “a submissive wife,” admitting, “It was a challenge for me at first.”

“Now, it’s, like, my favorite thing. I love talking about submission,” the reality TV star went on.

This isn’t the first time Prewett has mentioned submission. During a June 2024 episode of her podcast, she told her listeners, “As a wife, I’m called to submit, I’m called to respect, I’m called to honor.”

“I’m called to love, I’m called to be committed and to keep our marriage bed pure, and to make him, other than God, my greatest priority,” she added at the time.  

Elsewhere in the latest podcast episode, Prewett, who shares daughter Hosanna, 10 months, with Troutt, admitted engagement was “hard” for the couple.

The pair said their “I dos” on Oct. 29, 2022, exchanging vows in front of 400 loved ones at Troutt’s parents’ home in Dallas, Texas, as previously reported by PEOPLE. The ceremony came three months after their whirlwind engagement, which occurred just eight months into their relationship.

“Marriage, it’s the most beautiful, humble, refining, wild adventure [and] best friendship. It’s just, like, the best,” the podcast host continued.

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However, she admitted, “Engagement was hard for us in a lot of different ways. There was just a lot going on, even in our personal lives outside of engagement season,” adding, “[Grant’s] grandmother passed away [and] there was just a lot going on in a short time.”

“We had a three-month engagement. The world thought we were crazy. Maybe we were a little bit, but also we were just so excited to get married,” she went on, stating that they’d “learned a lot in those three years” since tying the knot.

When it comes to advice Prewett has for engaged couples or those thinking about marriage, she told the podcast, “Fight to unite and not to be right. That was one of the hardest things for me when we first got married.”

“I just wanted to be right all the time, and it was my way or the highway. I learned a lot through prayer and humbling myself before God. He was, like, ‘Actually, you got a lot of junk [that you need] to sort through.’ It was very sanctifying,” she continued.

Prewett and Troutt regularly open up about family life on the podcast.

In July, the couple sparked backlash after saying they’d both be open to using spanking as a form of discipline, claiming that their beliefs were supported by the Bible.

Troutt went on to say that it would be “hilarious” when they started using spanking as a way of punishing their daughter, Hosanna.

“The Lord’s discipline is always on the heels of disobedience or sin,” he said during the podcast episode in question. “So think about it, when you have a child, you don’t just discipline them for being good and obeying you, right?”

“Like, if Hosanna obeys us, we’re not like, ‘Come here, girl, come here. Alright, pull ’em down, get that, you know, Mama, get here,’ ” Troutt continued. “Which will be hilarious, by the way, when we start spanking Hosanna. Which we will, on the record, because the Bible clearly says, ‘Folly is bound up in a child, but discipline drives it far away.'” 

Prewett agreed with her husband and also cited the Bible.

“It also specifically says discipline with a rod… Well, some people could say, ‘You discipline them with time-outs.’ Hold on, it says with a rod,” she insisted.

Reps for Troutt and Prewett didn’t immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment at the time.