Investigating the Lived Experience of Love in White Marriage

One of the youth current challenges is confronting with opposite sex and the quality of reducing the new life styles’ costs such as cohabitation in case of appearing and keeping love as a life-giving element in each marriage and stable equal force in the path of every relationship. According to the research needs, this study analyzed cohabitated people experiencing love based on interpretivism approach and grounded theory. The research population consisted of 20 participants experiencing love in cohabitated life living in Isfahan. They were interviewed, by which six types of experiences were extracted including the emotional experience of love, love as a need providing factor, love as a social and practical issue, love as a cognitive and rational matter, the physiological experience of love, and sentimental and spiritual experiences of love. The core topic was love in cohabitation as a social activism area; it conveys that choosing love area is the symbol of individualism declinations in which individuals are playing the key role, not their society. The research causal condition is hesitation and pessimism toward marriage, individualism egalitarian and the importance of gratifications. The cohabited people’s action strategy is resistance against dominant cultural and social norms, rethinking regarding the concept of love and marriage and the economic strategies. Based on people with cohabitation experience’s view, the relationship outcomes are the logical selection based on utilitarianism and social rejection.