Abstract
The purposes of this study were to gain a clearer conceptualization of what makes romantic relationship origin (RRO) stories untellable, and how an untellable RRO tale impacts a narrator. In-depth interviews and open-coding revealed RRO stories are untellable if the narrative might generate negative judgement of the characters or relationship, and/or negative sanctions. Untellable RRO stories caused narrators to feel narrative exhaustion, lack of validation, limit identity construction and joy, and perpetuate silence. Untellable RRO stories also created a secret story world for narrators. These findings provide a deeper understanding of narrative tellability and how narrators “story around” untellable tales.
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