According to the Islamic Republic of Iran’s public military service law is a stage of Iranian young males’ life and married males are from these people. Regardless of advantages and disadvantages that military service has for all soldiers, married soldiers have especial problems; those, their study will be more important by attending to the general policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran, based on increasing young’s marriage and family formation, stability of marriage and removing barriers of it. The purpose of this study is thorough and deep study of married soldiers lived experience; therefore, this study uses a phenomenological approach. During the study, eight semi-structured interviews were conducted with married men. The information and data, then, were analyzed through Giorgi approach and findings were categorized in 12 themes and 12 sub-themes. The main themes of married soldiers are economic problems, employment problems, disordering of life, stress, academic improvement problems, feeling of abandonment after the service, favoritism, barrier to long-term planning and social opportunities, nonconformity of social status, nonunderstanding of married soldiers problems, system problems for occupation and marriage, and advantages for marrieds.
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