The extra-marital relations are one of the fundamental challenges of family life in the current era. The rate of divorce in our country has had an upward trend in recent years. According to family experts, often couples have mentioned unfaithful spouse as one of the divorce factors.As regarding to unpleasant consequences that extramarital relationships have for families and their children, the main goal of the present study is to study the affecting factors the extramarital relations qualitatively. To this end, 24 couples in the town named Qorveh - who had had unfaithful to their spouse and had referred to Welfare and counseling center- were selected by purposive sampling method and were studied with semi-structured in-depth interviews.Analysis of the data using a grounded theory revealed two categories of social and psychological factors caused the marital satisfaction and the extra-marital relations that they are respectively: forced marriage, attachment to spouse family and their involvement, attitude differences on gender roles, sexual and emotional dissatisfaction and suspicion. In other words, the mentioned factors provide context for dissatisfaction, loss of interest and understanding and in some cases the extramarital relations.

Background & Aims: The purpose of this study was to compare the religious beliefs and sexual satisfaction of women with and without meta-relationships. Materials & Methods: The research design was causal-comparative. The study population consisted of all women who referred to psychology and psychiatry clinics in Tehran in 1977, who had a history of extra-marital relationships, and women with no extra-marital relationships, including 60 women with purposeful and extra-marital relationships. Sixty women without meta-relationships were randomly selected and evaluated using the Hudson Sexual Satisfaction Questionnaire and the Temple Questionnaire. Data were analyzed using two-tailed independent t-test and multivariate analysis of variance. Results: The findings of the study showed that women with extra-marital relationships show lower sexual satisfaction and practice of religious beliefs than women without extra-marital relationships. Conclusion: Women who were more inclined and scored higher in the Religious Beliefs Questionnaire were not involved in extramarital affairs, and this could confirm the need to pay attention and cultivate religious beliefs among community members in order to survive and maintain the family.

Extramarital affairs are one of the harms of the family institution that fundamentally affects the couple's relationship. this study aimed to identify the process of formation of extramarital relationships between couples. The research method of the present study was based on a qualitative approach and using the narrative interview technique. The statistical sample of the study was 20 people who referred to the court and law offices of Mashhad and the sample size was determined based on the information saturation rule. In the analysis of interviews, 13 main categories and 39 subcategories were extracted. The relationships between the main categories showed that extramarital relationships are created through a four-step process. These stages include contextual conditions, causal conditions, strategies, and intervening conditions that have led to the tendency to extramarital relationships and, ultimately, the establishment of extramarital relationships. Finally, the core category of this research was "weakening the codes of honor in today's society. "

Extramarital affairs are one of the main harmful factors in the structure and stability of the family as they have harmful individual, family, and social consequences. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to identify and prioritize the factors affecting the formation of extramarital relationships. The research method used is Q, and the data collection tool is a researcher-made questionnaire. The statistical sample using purposive sampling method includes 40 experts and activists in the field of social harms (extramarital affairs). The results of the study lead to the extraction of four main factors of marital infidelity: sociocultural (the effect of virtual social networks, reduced attitudes towards moral values, inappropriate marriage, etc. ), psychological (experience of premarital sex, suffering from mental, mood, and personality disorders, poor communication and life skills training, etc. ), economic (family financial and livelihood problems, earning and materialism, male unemployment), and family (revenge on the spouse, lack of adherence to marital obligations, monotony in marital relations, etc. ). Lack of understanding, comprehension, and interpretation of the deep layers of this complex and multidimensional problem and ways to reduce it will lead to further disintegration of the family institution.

Extramarital relationships are defined and interpreted differently across societies, cultures, and even among individuals, and have always been a source of controversy. According to research findings, the way individuals define and interpret extramarital relationships predicts their involvement in such relationships. Therefore, one of the most important aspects of examining extramarital relationships is addressing individuals' perspectives about them. Accordingly, this paper aims to explore the interpretations and meanings that married people assign to these relationships by utilizing a qualitative research approach. In performing the objective of this analysis, eighteen married people - Tehran residents - had been interviewed: Semi-structured interviews who, within virtual or real-space contexts, needed to establish at least one of their sexual-emotional or only-sex or emotion relations. Thematic analysis of the participants' narratives revealed that these meanings and interpretations included reducing extramarital relationships to sexual intercourse, trivializing extramarital relationships, generalizing extramarital relationships, discrediting marital fidelity, and Extramarital Relationships as Tacit Agreements. In this way, throughout this process, those studied participated in the re-conceptualizing of an extra-marital relationship as a non-moral issue and became involved in one. These findings show that through the redefinition, the participants did not try to eliminate the unfaithfulness label linked with their cheating behavior but tried to justify the involvement in these relationships as a strategy.

Extra marital relations are one of the most important threats to the establishment of marital relations and family functioning, and one of the major issues of divorce and the most critical issues that threaten families and social health. The aim of the research is to find out the causes of extramarital relationships in women. This research was conducted in a qualitative manner using the qualitative qualitative analysis method. Based on the purposeful sampling method and the theoretical saturation criterion, 34 women participated in the research. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect information. Analyzing the information obtained from the interviews, there are 3 main topics including individual factors, interpersonal factors and social factors.Interpersonal factors by identifying factors such as personality traits, mental disorders, dysfunctional attitudes, interpersonal factors by identifying themes such as disturbances in love and feeling of belonging to one's spouse, lack of alignment and lack of companionship, low quality of sex and dysfunctional relationships. Social factors by identifying a set of social conditions such as macro changes such as individualism, changing values ​​and promoting alternative values, lack of pure relationship, facilitating technology and virtual media, changing the way women look at being a woman and its responsibilities, weakening of religious principles, They were identified and categorized as the main topics of this research.The findings of the present research can provide a clear picture of the experience of extramarital relationships, so that it can be useful for coping strategies.

Introduction: Extramarital affairs are one of the most important threats to the stability and continuity of marriage and one of the most severe causes of marital disputes. Divorce is another critical issue that affects and damages the functioning of the family. Accordingly, this study aims to understand extramarital relationships in women and seek effective causes of it. Methods: This is a qualitative study using the qualitative content analysis method. Based on theoretical saturation criteria, thirty-four women participated in this study. A semi-structured interview method was used to collect information. Results: After analyzing the content of the information obtained from the interviews, the themes of disruption in love and feeling of belonging to the spouse, lack of alignment and companionship, low quality of sexual intercourse, and dysfunctional relationships were identified as the main themes. Conclusions: The occurrence of extramarital affairs in women is not a one-dimensional phenomenon but the result of the several factors' interaction, plus the role of interpersonal factors is fundamental. Due to the nature of these factors, paying attention and providing the necessary training to couples in this field can play a decisive role in reducing extramarital affairs.

Extramarital relationship is a problem that severely affects individuals’ lives and is one of the main reasons of divorce. The aim of the present study is to provide a deep understanding of women's experience of their husbands’ extramarital relations.The research method is phenomenology which is a qualitative method. For this purpose, 12 betrayed women were selected by purposeful sampling method.Depth interview methods were used for data collection. The interviews were recorded and written word by word and were analyzed using the Colaizzi method.Five main themes were extracted including severe physical and psychological disturbances, unpleasant emotions, and permanent preoccupation with the causes of infidelity, difficulty in relation with unfaithful spouse, grief and sorrow. Based on the findings of this study, the negative consequences of extramarital relationship is very deep and long-lasting for the damaged wife and the whole family. As a result, making people aware of the negative consequences can be effective in the prevention of extramarital relationship.Additionally, the clinicians can use these findings to help the women to cope with the problem in a better way.