The following is a qualitative investigation of constructive and interpretative character of the process of elaboration of the mourning of four divorced people, approached from the field of reality of a scientific investigation and from the psychoanalytical perspective, of authors like, Sigmund Freud, Dorian Leader, Otto Kernberg and Igor Caruso, who allowed to understand the mourning after the loss of an object of love as an event that has some implications in the psychic apparatus of the one who suffers it, However, other cultural variables were also taken into account, since rituals and celebrations reveal many things about a family and its particular ways of relating to and dealing with different situations in life, specifically with the partner.