2003) ‘Accounting for Divorce: Gender and Uncoupling Narratives’, Qualitative Sociology 26(3

Past research about uncoupling processes has focused on the differing narratives people offer to explain the end of their marriages, depending on whether or not they perceive themselves to have initiated the ending. This article extends previous work by adding gender to the analysis, exploring intersections between accounts of divorce and accountability to cultural assumptions related to gender. In this inductive study, we examine qualitative interview data-particularly discrepancies in the narratives of some men and women-and suggest that gender mediates how people talk about the process of uncoupling as well as their motives for divorce. KEY WORDS: accounts; narratives; divorce; uncoupling. A divorced man explained in an interview that he and his wife should never have married in the first place. Early in their relationship, they had gone on a vacation together-he figured that he could "get laid five or six times"-but she had become pregnant and they had married. Although he didn't "enjoy" being married, he "wouldn't have broken up the family." When he was delivered some paperwork from family court, however, he waited a year and then filed for divorce because he realized that his wife was going to do it. He described her "bitterness" toward him as "ruining" their children's lives; they were currently engaged in a custody battle. From his point of view, his ex-wife was attempting to "control" and "alienate" the children from him. She had "allowed the heat of battle to consume her" and he had to fight back. "Like countries," he commented, "if one wants to remain at war, peace cannot be achieved.&quot

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