Love Is Blind’s Amy Cortes and Johnny McIntyre are wanting ahead to having youngsters — however aren’t essentially in a rush to develop their household.
“In my good world, I’d like to [have kids] after I’m in my early thirties, however it simply actually relies upon,” Amy, 27, instructed Us Weekly whereas selling her and Johnny’s partnership with Pure Cycles. “I really feel like we’ve had a stupendous yr and we positively need to preserve 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 along with his timeline as effectively so it’s good,” she defined.
Johnny echoed Amy’s sentiments, including that they’re “not in any rush anytime quickly.”
“At any time when the time does come after we’re each like, ‘Hey, we’re prepared now,’ that’s what we’re going to shoot for,” he shared with Us.
Johnny McIntyre, Amy Cortes. Greg Gayne/Netflix
Johnny and Amy linked within the pods throughout season 6 of LIB, which was filmed in March 2023. After creating a robust bond, the twosome acquired engaged sight unseen and tied the knot throughout the season finale.
Following their first yr 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 sort of saved out of my approach, actually didn’t see them too usually, however I really feel like because the experiment … we basically lived collectively each single day,” Johnny instructed Us, including that spending each day collectively is “very nice” however very totally 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 positively made it slightly bit tough making an attempt to determine what the perfect forms of routines had been going to be.”
Amy agreed that transferring 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 every thing and we need to ensure that we aren’t the kind of individuals who simply sort of brush issues beneath 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. Nevertheless, after studying extra about her personal physique, Amy and Johnny determined to start out utilizing Pure Cycles, the world’s first contraception app.
“Pure Cycles is principally only a very natural option to basically monitor your cycle and just remember to are going about every thing within the most secure approach doable,” Amy shared with Us. “And so that you monitor it by basically inputting your knowledge of once you began your interval and then you definitely 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 digicam [about] and principally educate 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 an effective way to actually bond and study and educate ourselves as a pair, however study extra about my physique as effectively.”
