本研究以質性研究的詮釋現象學為基礎，以半結構的深度訪談，直接與頂客族進行互為主體的對話，旨在探索與瞭解頂客夫妻的婚姻生活經驗。透過3對頂客夫妻與3位頂客族，包含自願和非自願不生育者的12份訪談資料，依照主題分析法的策略與步驟，以「兩人世界，攜手共彈二重奏」主題詮釋頂客族夫妻婚姻生活經驗，次主題別為：（一）獨奏時，盡情展現自我；（二）合奏時，互為對方唱和；（三）包容體諒，接受對方走調時；（四）同心齊力，無雙不成和諧調；（五）少年夫妻，老來和鳴相作伴；（六）孤掌難鳴，捨不得斷了弦的你。接著再提出研究討論、反思，並對社會大眾、政府政策、家庭教育方案規劃提出具體建議。

The researcher used hermeneutic phenomenological methodology and tried to explore the marital lived experiences of the DINKS’ couples through the process of mutual dialogues and understanding. Semi-structured in-depth interview was adopted in this study. Texts were collected from three DINKS’ couples and three DINKS who were interviewed twice and each interview took 75 to 150 minutes. All conversational interviews were converted into verbatim transcriptions.Through thematic analysis, “Playing the Duet together in our world “is the theme as their marital lived experiences. And the sub-themes are, (a). Expressing myself as soloing, (b). Singing for each other as duetting, (c). Accepting your going wrong, (d). Cooperating to make the duet fl uently, (e).Companying with you from youth to old, (f). Don’t wonna let you go cause I can’t play alone.At the end of this study, some discussions and refl ections as well as conclusions were presented.Finally, some implications were presented for the public, the government, and the family educators.