Constructions of Mate Selection Mistakes Among Divorce Applicant Women

This qualitative study aims to explore the patterns and conditions of the wrong decisions women make in choosing their life partners. Grounded theory was employed as the methodological framework. Accordingly, 31 women who had applied for a divorce in the city of Yazd were selected to participate. Purposeful sampling and semistructured interviews were used to select samples and collect data. The findings show wrong decisions in choosing one’s husband were due to heterogeneous partners; emotional, self-willed, and blind decisions; arranged marriages; marriages of convenience; immaturity; conceiving of marriage as an escape from a crisis; dysfunctional parental families; oppressive families; bring destitute; and normative pressure.