The present study identifies, describes and analyses both individual emotions and emotional interactions between couples. In particular, this study focuses, first, upon the questions of how intimate partners experience, understand and construct their emotions and their partner’s emotions and, second, the subsequent effect of this construct upon the unit’s emotional interactions. The study focuses upon a sample of married couples involved in normal life transformations that affect the development of their family. Life transformation occurs when couples or families pass through stages of development characterized by qualitative differences between the stages. That is, a qualitative difference is one that brings about a substantive change in the characterization and construct of the family as well as in the nature of the tasks and the emotional systems within the family. (White and Klein, 2002) Family development theories stress the potential of normal family transformations to increase levels of partner's negative emotions. That is the case even when the developments are perceived as positive and are welcomed by both partners (Duvall & Miller, 1985; Rodgers & White, 1993; White & Klein, 2002). The basis of a system of intimate relationships is the ability of the partners to successfully communicate their emotions. This foundation is dependent upon the intimate partners’ awareness of their own emotions, their partner's emotions, and their ability to verbally express those emotions (Denzin, 1984). The term 'Meta-Emotion' describes the ways in which people experience, feel and think about both their own emotions and the emotions of others (Gottman, Katz & Hooven, 1995). The concept of ‘Meta-Emotion’ is central and basic to the current research. Specifically, the term 'Meta-Emotion' refers to emotions about emotion. It addresses people's concepts, cognitions, metaphors and understandings about their own emotions, and as a result, the emotions of other people, in particular, the emotions of their intimate partners (Gottman, 1999). While most meta-emotion studies to date have focused on parent-child dyads (DeOliveira, Moran & Pederson, 2005; Gottman, Katz & Hooven, 1997; Gottman, 2001; Katz & Gottman, 1997; Katz, Wilson & Gottman, 1999 Katz & Windecker-Nelson, 2004; Ramsden & Hubbard, 2002), the main goal of the present study is to bring into focus the emotional developments, as well as Meta-Emotion constructs, in married couples’ interactions.Phenomenological research aspires to learn the essential, fixed patterns of the phenomenon under discussion. In other words, the goal of phenomenological study is to understand in depth the essence of experiences and phenomena, while recognizing that certain human phenomena share a common essence (Creswell, 1998; Moustakas, 1994). This method of understanding should help provide us with a theoretical structure which will deepen our understanding of the phenomenon under discussion (Denzin, 1989). This thesis focuses on examination of methods by which people grasp and form their emotions, and deals with the question of how this formation effects their emotional interaction with their spouse, and is effected by it.