Meagan Good and Devon Franklin speak on no sex before marriage

Meagan Good and Devon Franklin, the couple who met on the set of 2011’s Jumping the Broom, have revealed more on their no sex before marriage relationship.

The couple tied the knot in 2012 and have since been speaking about how they never had sex together before they got married.

Devon Franklin revealed while speaking on The Tamron Hall Show:

“I think we just wanted to share because relationships are so hard. And truth be told, there’s not a lot of guidance out there. So we wanted to share our truth, and that waiting to have sex was a critical part of the healthy foundation of our marriage and relationship. And we both were doing it independently. I had been doing it for years before Meagan and I got together. Because being out in the world, speaking and preaching, telling one thing, there was a time when I was doing something different. And I wanted to reconcile who I was in public and in private. So that’s why I decided to wait. I said ‘I’m gonna wait until marriage’ after I wasn’t waiting. And then Meagan and I got together and found out she had been waiting.”

On her own part, Meagan Good said she knew Devon was going to be her husband after they met.

“It’s really interesting because we had met four years prior to working on ‘Jumping The Broom.’ He was the executive on ‘Jumping The Broom’, I was the actress on the film. And I was in the tail end of a not so great relationship. We just weren’t right for each other. I really got a chance to get to know [Devn] on set. I thought ‘Man that’s the kind of guy I wish I could marry.’ And that was it. He’s the guy who gives you the job, that’s all I thought about it.”

She added,

“And then I got back from Nova Scotia filming and I was like ‘Man Lord I’m at a really hard place. I’m at a standstill in my life. What am I supposed to be doing?’ The first thing that God told me was that it was time to get out of that relationship. The second thing that God told me was that it was time to celibate. And the third thing that God told me was that Devon was my husband.”

“I was like ‘Okay. So…’ And I didn’t know him that well. I was like ‘So what I do Lord?’ And God was just like ‘Nothing. Just work on yourself.’ So I spent the next nine months healing, working on damage from childhood, growing up in the business, things you just go through in life. And about five months in I started telling friends and family that Devon was my husband. And they were like ‘Really? Does he know that?’ I’m like ‘No.'”

Opening up on how they handle their celibacy challenges, Devon said:

“It’s one of the things we talk about in the book. We talk about the power of delayed gratification. We live in a time where everybody wants everything now. But there’s a lot of value when we just wait and sit back and say ‘You know what, I’m gonna delay this because if I do, I’ll get what I actually want when it’s time for it.’ So for us we had to know our triggers. That meant that some nights we couldn’t Netflix & chill. We couldn’t do it!”

In addition, he said they did “cuddle” somedays, but said,

“Every day was different. We had sleepovers, but again, you gotta know your boundaries. You gotta know your triggers.”