{"id":612828,"date":"2026-09-03T02:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T02:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/612828\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T02:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T02:50:11","slug":"raven-gates-gets-candid-about-motherhood-feeling-lonely-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/612828\/","title":{"rendered":"Raven Gates Gets Candid About Motherhood, Feeling Lonely, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sending love.<\/p>\n

Bachelor Nation fans saw Raven Gates Gottschalk meet and fall in love with Adam Gottschalk on Season 4 of \u201cBachelor in Paradise.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since then, Raven and Adam have tied the knot and welcomed two kids: their son Gates in January 2022 and their second son, Max, in July 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The couple loves to keep people updated with their lives on social media, often posting about their family, marriage, and parenthood.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Recently, Raven took to her Instagram Story to open up about feeling lonely, motherhood, and more. While answering fan questions online, Raven responded to a question asking if she ever feels lonely in marriage or motherhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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She replied, \u201cI definitely think it comes in phases! I think I felt the most isolated when the kids were about 1 year old to 2 years old. They\u2019re not in school, it\u2019s hard to find play dates with kids that age, they still may not play independently even if you do have a play date & it\u2019s hard to bond with a new friend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Raven went on, \u201cYou still are waking up at night at times, it\u2019s just [the] hardest ages for me at least. Newborns you can just tote around. Before 1 and 2 they aren\u2019t mobile. So for many reasons this was hard when it came to socializing. But it gets better!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Bachelor Nation star has also previously opened up online about Max experiencing some speech delays, as well as the improvements he\u2019s made. And this week, she decided to share a vulnerable story about a dream she had regarding Max.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to be very vulnerable,\u201d she shared. \u201cI had a dream last night that I was having a full functioning conversation with Max. And it really \u2014 when I woke up this morning \u2014 it really upset me because it wasn\u2019t real. Now, is Max making progress? Yes he is. Is he doing better than what he was? Yes. Is it a slow progression? Yes it is. But I feel like I\u2019ve been pretty positive.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t even go there and think about the future because I\u2019m just in the present and I\u2019m doing the best I can in the present. And then having that dream, it was like, \u2018Oh that literally is a dream I want to come true\u2019 kind of thing,\u201d she went on candidly. \u201cIt\u2019s not that something is wrong, it\u2019s just I want it so bad.<\/p>\n

Raven shared that Max has been making great progress lately and she\u2019s very excited for him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cActually things are really good. He\u2019s done some wonderful things even this past weekend that have been such amazing progressions that Adam and I have gotten really excited about,\u201d she said. \u201cBut it\u2019s like even though I\u2019m trying to keep my emotions at bay, my subconscious is really getting its hopes up. And I think that\u2019s a good thing and a bad thing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

We\u2019re sending our love to Raven. We know her continued honesty and vulnerability will help so many others going through a similar journey.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Instagram Sending love. Bachelor Nation fans saw Raven Gates Gottschalk meet and fall in love with Adam Gottschalk…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-612828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}