Marital Conflicts with Emotional Divorce by Mediating the Role of Intimacy in Married Women; Examining a Causal Model

The aim of this study was to investigate marital conflicts and emotional divorce by mediating the role of intimacy in married women by descriptive screening and correlation using structural equation modeling. The study population included all married women in Garmsar. Using the available sampling method, 400 married women were selected for the sample group and answered Gatman's emotional divorce scale, Sanaei marital conflict questionnaire and Bagaruzi intimacy questionnaire. The results showed that there is a significant direct relationship between the components of marital conflicts and emotional divorce and a significant inverse relationship between the components of intimacy and emotional divorce. The research model was appropriate and confirmed and 0.32 of the emotional divorce variance was explained by marital conflicts and intimacy. Based on the findings of this study, it is suggested that educational packages be designed and implemented to reduce practical conflicts in order to reduce practical conflicts in order to strengthen the intimacy of couples. This study has practical implications for family therapists in transitioning from emotional divorce to levels of marital conflict and intimacy, and provides a better understanding of the etiology of emotional divorce in couples.