Becoming a Married Couple: The Emergence of Meaning in the First Years of Marriage

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In this study, we examine stories that a representative sample of 264 married couples told about how their relationship developed. Courtship stories are coded on three sets of dimensions: style of the story, storytelling process, and content of the story. The results indicate that courtship stories told in the 1st year of marriage both follow patterns that help us interpret the meaning that the couple is deriving from becoming a couple, and are predictive of marital well-being in the 3rd year. Comparisons are also made between black couples and white couples.

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