Couple's Emotional Interactions and its Role in Emotional Divorce and Initiating for Divorce: A Qualitative Study

Many factors, such as economic, cultural, social and family factors, are effective in divorce and initiating for divorce. The present study addresses the emotional interactions of couples and its role in emotional divorce and initiating for divorce. 30 married women who referred to one of the counseling centers of Tehran and who were at least in the second year of their marriage were selected through purposeful sampling. Data were collected by semi-structured interviews and coded and analyzed by content analysis method. The results included seven groups of problems, including the changing of the unconditional acceptance to conditional acceptance, obligatory marriage without love and interest, lack of initial engage-ment, lack of sufficient time to express interest and affection for family, poor social interactions, sluggishness, and uns-olved emotional problems that were effecting the couple's emotional divorce and initiating for divorce. Negative emotional interaction of couples plays a key role in the creation and expansion of emotional divorce and initiating for divo-rce, and before marriage it is necessary to provide couples sufficient knowledge about such interactions and their role in harming marital life.