A Study on the Experience of Overcoming the Divorce Crisis of Women with Alcoholic Spouse

The purpose of this study is to explore how woman with alcoholic spouse overcomes the divorce crisis facing her marriage with husband. A total of five cases were selected as subjects of the study and the necessary data were collected through one-to-one in-depth interviews. The collected data were analyzed by Creswell (2021)’s case study method. According to the research procedure, In-case analysis and inter-case analysis were applied. In the in-case analysis, the experience process of overcoming the divorce crisis in the context of the life of the cases was explored. In the inter-case analysis, the integrated themes involving ‘Husband’s excessive drinking awareness’, ‘Confusion about married life’, ‘Another problem derived from alcohol’, ‘Negative awareness about husband’, ‘Divorce wish’, ‘Divorce worry’, ‘Support system’, ‘Understanding of husband’, ‘Change of husband’, ‘Reorganization of self’, ‘From dependence to independence’, ‘Establishing relationship between communication and compromise’ were extracted based on the common feature in the case analysis. Based on the results of the study, the researcher suggested some practical implications such as confirmation of ambivalence about divorce, support for independent self-formation, pre-marital education and active intervention in family violence to overcome the divorce crisis of women with alcoholic spouses.