Inherited obedience is not nothing. It can preserve continuity, transmit reverence, and keep a generation near a truth it does not yet fully understand. But inherited obedience is not the same thing as covenantal ownership.
The Blessing becomes owned when a couple can say, in effect, “This is not only what our parents or church wanted for us. This is the life before God that we now choose together.” Until that transition happens, the form may be present while the inner authorship is missing.
That means repair for earlier second-gen Blessings is not mainly re-explaining doctrine or shaming people into gratitude. It is helping them become choosers now. The covenant becomes real when they can bring honest consent, shared power, truthful speech, and recurring repair into the marriage they already inhabit.
In that sense, the deepest reaffirmation of the Blessing is lived rather than ceremonial. Ownership appears when inherited form becomes chosen practice.