Love Is Blind’s Amy Cortes and Johnny McIntyre are wanting ahead to having children — however aren’t essentially in a rush to develop their household.
“In my good world, I’d like to [have kids] once I’m in my early thirties, nevertheless it simply actually relies upon,” Amy, 27, informed Us Weekly whereas selling her and Johnny’s partnership with Pure Cycles. “I really feel like we’ve had an attractive 12 months and we undoubtedly wish to hold persevering with to do stuff inside our marriage, touring and simply exploring one another and the world collectively.”
Amy, who married Johnny, 28, within the LIB season 6 finale, famous that she’s “hoping” that the couple wait “three to 4” extra years earlier than having kids.
“That aligned together with his timeline as nicely so it’s good,” she defined.
Johnny echoed Amy’s sentiments, including that they’re “not in any rush anytime quickly.”
“Every time the time does come once we’re each like, ‘Hey, we’re prepared now,’ that’s what we’re going to shoot for,” he shared with Us.
Johnny and Amy related within the pods throughout season 6 of LIB, which was filmed in March 2023. After growing a powerful bond, the twosome received engaged sight unseen and tied the knot through the season finale.
Following their first 12 months of marriage, Amy and Johnny each revealed some challenges they needed to overcome together with dwelling collectively.
“I did have roommates earlier than, however they had been very a lot type of stored out of my approach, actually didn’t see them too usually, however I really feel like for the reason that experiment … we primarily lived collectively each single day,” Johnny informed Us, including that spending each day collectively is “very nice” however very completely different. “I’ve my set routine, Amy has her set routine. I’m extra of a morning particular person, she’s extra of an evening owl, and it undoubtedly made it somewhat bit tough attempting to determine what one of the best sorts of routines had been going to be.”
Amy agreed that shifting in collectively was an impediment they needed to overcome, however she appears like they’ve “dealt with it with loads of grace.”
“We attempt to discuss all the things and we wish to ensure that we aren’t the kind of individuals who simply type of brush issues underneath the rug,” Johnny famous.
One subject the couple needed to talk on was contraception, as Amy introduced on the present that she was not on any oral contraceptives. Nonetheless, after studying extra about her personal physique, Amy and Johnny determined to begin utilizing Pure Cycles, the world’s first contraception app.
“Pure Cycles is principally only a very natural strategy to primarily monitor your cycle and just remember to are going about all the things within the most secure approach doable,” Amy shared with Us. “And so that you monitor it by primarily inputting your information of whenever you began your interval and you then additionally monitor your temperature and thru that it tracks your ovulation and allows you to know when you must chorus from partaking in intercourse or if you wish to use extra safety.”
Amy added that earlier than Love Is Blind, she used an everyday cycle monitoring app, however shared that it didn’t give “as a lot steerage” as Pure Cycles.
“That’s one thing that I needed to have a dialog with him off digital camera [about] and principally train him how the cycle works, however I additionally didn’t actually know the extent that I do know now after utilizing Pure Cycles,” she defined. “So it’s been a good way to actually bond and study and educate ourselves as a pair, however study extra about my physique as nicely.”