Divorce grounds and processes among two opposite gender in Mashhad city

A family is based on a stable and continuous commitment between two opposite genders. This group affect and being affected by different social arena according to a warm interaction. In case the family is not capable of fulfilling its members’ requirements properly, it will face to instability. Sometimes this instability brings about breaking the commitment, I.e. divorce. Nowadays in Iran, a family is faced to different instabilities, one of its consequences is assumed be divorce. Unfortunately, although it has become a serious problem in our society, there are only a limited number of qualitative researches carried out on its reasons as well as its grounds. The present research expresses the reasons for divorce based on actors experiencing it. As a result, the present research has been conducted using grounded theory and through an interview with 6 female and 4 male. After deep interviews and multistage coding, it was attempted to find out an abstract model. Finally, the researcher come up with 180open codes in14 pivotal code s and at the end 3 selective codes of grounds, processes as well as consequences were resulted. Divorce grounds can be stated into two levels of macro and micro:at the macro level it can be due to multi culture and values confusion and at the micro level it can be due to inappropriate choices for marriage. Generally speaking the process comprises of: inappropriate marriage, facing a problem and incapability in solving it, enhancing the problem and its effects on other aspects of their life.