The experience of separation and divorce in heterosexual couples often has different meanings associated to the lived fact before, during, and after it. Anyway, it is possible to find some similarities, as well as emergent meanings that are possible to extract from phenomenology as a method. From a group of separated/divorced women, information were extracted about their experience on this phenomenon, in order to understand the feelings and emotions lived by them and as a therapeutic significance of a painful episode. This allowed comparing what phenomenologists propose on emotional separation and what were experienced by the participants in this study.
divorce; woman; meaning; phenomenology
