Experience of Forced Counseling between Applicants for Divorce in Tehran

Today, changes in families have begun to take on different forms, both beginning and ending. Given the increasing divorce rate among couples, the legislator has been trying to think of measures to reduce the harm and its consequences. Referral to counseling centers is one of the programs that have been compulsory by court centers in Tehran in 1997 to reduce divorce. The purpose of this study was to investigate the experience of counseling between men and women applying for divorce through narrative analysis method and purposeful sampling. Findings about women's experiences of referral to counseling centers are analyzed in three stages: first; the decision to divorce; second, the arms of judicial counseling; and third, the agreement on divorce. In fact, premature start of life and having meta-marital relationships along with the intervention of the families make the couple divorced, providing grounds for the divorce event. In the meantime, applying for a divorce agreement is another stage of compulsory separation counseling, which can be termed overtime counseling, which in most cases leads to an inability to reach a solution. Of course, the aftermath of such counseling makes it possible to prepare for separation and deal with the dang.