Exploring the Meaning of Divorce from the View Point of Divorcees of Sabzevar City

The purpose of this paper is exploring the meaning of divorce from the view point of divorcees through qualitative approach. Data were collected using deep interview with 15 women who had experienced divorce in Sabzevar city. Participants were selected through theoretical and purposive sampling. Data were analyzed by coding techniques. Ten main categories were explored as the result of interviews. The core category that covers all other ones is “refusal to interact”. Moreover, we found four causal category including “psychological problem of man”, “misusing technology”, women’s unmet expectations from the side of husband” as well as “value difference between couples”. Categories which constitute intermediate conditions include “parents’ intervention”, “distrust in wife”, “economic problems”, “husband’s irresponsibility” and “husband’s psychic problems”. Finally, we investigated divorce consequences at three levels: micro, meso and macro level. Important matter to point out here is that based on experiences participants, in micro and meso levels divorce has both positive and negative outcomes but in macro level all outcomes are negative.