The window of life after divorce: a diverse construction of the new world life (Qualitative study of the consequences of divorce on women's lives in Tehran)

Introduction:The aim of the current research is to study the sociological and, of course, emic and qualitative approach of the life experience of women in Tehran after divorce.Method: The methodology of the current qualitative research was carried out using the grounded theory strategy.For this purpose, in-depth and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 39 divorced women in Tehran, who were selected by the purposeful sampling method and snowball strategy, during more than 8 months.The interviews continued until the theoretical saturation stage.Data analysis was done through open, central and selective coding system and finally the core category was extracted.Findings: In the open coding stage, 155 open codes, 33 central codes, 7 main categories and one core category were extracted from the data coding system: Life of children of divorce: double victory and failure, reaching forgotten individuality, desire and experience The images of riotous pleasures, the lack of pleasant experience of returning to the father's house, economic challenges (hardship), diversification of negative attention (sexual and instrumental), a conceptual framework of the stigma of divorce, multifaceted rejection.Also, "actualized dualism: from the experience of hardship to modern individuality" was chosen as the core category and finally a tree diagram extracted from the data was prepared.Discussion: Life after divorce, at least at first glance, is an experience of the life of divorced women, which cannot be easily explained.Positive and negative dialectical relationship is the result of life after divorce.In fact, life after divorce for women can be likened to a drama show, watching the leading situation is a contradictory flow of good and bad affairs and inadequacy in the forecast.