`I do' Again: The Relational Dialectics of Renewing Marriage Vows
- 1 May 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
- Vol. 12 (2), 177-198
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407595122002
Abstract
This study provides descriptive insight into the dialectical themes of one public relationship ritual in modern US society, the renewal of marital vows between spouses. Interpretive analyses of in-depth interview data revealed that this ritual allows spouses to manage three underlying dialectical contra- dictions: private-public, stability-change and conventionality-uniqueness.Keywords
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