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The Hard Decisions: A Qualitative Study Of Marital Reconciliation, Hannah Pearce Plauche
The Hard Decisions: A Qualitative Study Of Marital Reconciliation, Hannah Pearce Plauche
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The topics of marriage and divorce have been studied extensively, especially in recent decades; however, the topic of marital reconciliation has been scarcely researched. Seven couples (N = 14) participated in a qualitative investigation of marital reconciliation. Each couple had filed a petition for divorce in the state of Louisiana between the years 2000-2010. Before the required 12 month period of living apart were complete, each couple decided to discontinue the divorce proceedings and reconcile their marriages, and have lived together continuously for a period of more than three years. A purposive, convenience sample was solicited due to the specific …