The Bachelor alum Raven Gates has revealed that she and husband Adam Gottschalk attended therapy of all sorts before tying the knot.
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"We have done every sort of therapy you can think of. Not because we needed it, we did it preventatively," Raven said during a recent appearance on the "Click Bait with Bachelor Nation" podcast co-hosted by Joe Amabile, Tia Booth and Natasha Parker.
For instance, Raven and Adam even discussed before getting married how Raven would be the only person to get up in the middle of the night with their baby since Adam doesn't get paternity leave and "works long and hard hours."
"I knew that was up to me, and that's something we agreed on as a couple, that that's what I was going to do. And I was happy to do it," Raven said.
She elaborated of their relationship and why they needed therapy, "We come from two different backgrounds. We're two different religions. He's from California. He was raised differently. I'm from the South. I was raised with just my momma, and he was raised with a whole crew of people."
"And so we knew we had major differences on those kinds of things," Raven continued, "so we had pre-marital counseling. We had counseling before we had children. We had inter-faith counseling."
Raven said she and Adam also had family counseling to help prepare them for welcoming a baby.
"So we did all of that and worked it out," Raven noted.
Raven confirmed all the therapy really "helped" their post-Bachelor in Paradise relationship.
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"There's things that you can't prepare for, right? You can always try to prepare, but there's going to be a curveball and we learned that through every phase of our relationship," Raven said.
RELATED LINK: 'THE BACHELOR' FRANCHISE COUPLES NOW"But I think what's really good for me and Adam is we have our basic foundations that are so similar."
Raven insisted that she and Adam are on the same page and "don't want divorce."
"We want each other to be successful. Our family as a unit is the most important. So, that kind of foundation makes it easier to navigate the troubled waters when we get into them," the Arkansas native said.
Raven concluded how she and her husband want "the same endgame" in life and so they work hard to tackle their issues and remain in love.
Earlier this month, Raven and Adam, who met on Season 4 of Bachelor in Paradise, celebrated their first wedding anniversary.
"Happy 1 year to the love of my life @adam_gottschalk," Raven wrote on Instagram. "A lot can happen in 1 year. Like I said in my vows, I'll hold your hand through it all."
The couple announced Raven's pregnancy in late July 2021, less than four months after getting married.
Raven wrote on Instagram at the time, "OVER THE MOON EXCITED TO SHARE THE NEWS! Our Honeymoon baby will be here in January! I've loved you before you were in my womb!"
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The pair then shared in October 2021 how they had a boy on the way, who was due on January 26, 2022.
"OH BOY!!! Can't wait to meet our little pumpkin," Raven captioned an image of the couple posing in their self-made pumpkin patch at home.
Raven said she found out she's pregnant right after her April 16 wedding in Dallas, TX.
The pair claimed they had cases of "major baby fever" shortly after tying the knot.
"I think we agreed [that] we'd like two or three [kids]," Raven told Us Weekly in June of last year. "But Adam has said, you know, we'll see how I do with two and then go from there."
Raven and Adam fell in love in Mexico on Bachelor in Paradise's fourth season in 2017 and then got engaged in June 2019.
After getting engaged, Raven and Adam initially scheduled their wedding for May 30, 2020, but they had to postpone the wedding multiple times due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Prior to appearing on Bachelor in Paradise, Raven competed to win Nick Viall's heart on The Bachelor's 21st season and finished as the runner-up.
For Adam's part, he competed for Rachel Lindsay's heart on The Bachelorette's thirteenth season in Spring 2017 before his BIP stint on Season 4.
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