The overall objective of the study was to understand the relationship between the meanings of marital problems and the emotional communication between partners, and partner conception that frames these meanings, for members of three couples attending systemic therapy. The notion of Emotional Communication was conceived as verbal and nonverbal communication that expresses the emotional experience between the partners, and the mutual influence of emotional states between them. Through an analysis of categorical and holistic narrative content of the transcripts of the sessions of psychotherapeutic processes, it was found that the forms of emotional communication between partners are crucial for establishing a marital problem as such increases or resolved. Communicational forms of recrimination and reproach disqualification are among the most significant in establishing patterns of domination and submission, or defense reactions and emotional distance between partners.