The current study aims to measure how married couples express their anger, sadness, and guilt emotions towards their partners during conflictual situations and to adapt the measures assessing these emotions into Turkish. For this aim, two pilot studies, one using a qualitative and the other a quantitative design, have been conducted to see whether there were culture-specific ways of expressing emotions in the Turkish cultural context. In the qualitative pilot study, semi-structured interviews were conducted to retrieve culture specific aspects of emotion expressions. In the quan- titative pilot study, Guerrero s (1994; Guerrero et al., 2008; 2009) three scales measuring anger, sadness, and guilt expression in close relationships were adapted into Turkish. The findings of these two pilot studies were combined in designing the third (main) study. With the addition of culture specific items to the original scales, comprehensive anger, sadness, and guilt expression scales were developed and the factor structures and reliability of these scales were examined in the main study. The main study involved a sample of 167 married couples and the analyses were conducted for wives and husbands, separately. Results revealed a four-factor solution for anger expression styles, namely distributive, passive, avoidance aggression, and integrative assertion. Analyses on the items of sadness ex- pression yielded three factors, corresponding solitude/negative behavior, social support/dependent behavior, and positive activity. Finally expression of guilt was represented by three factors capturing apology/appeasement, denial, and explanations.