This study aimed to investigating the most common emotional intelligence skills and the level of the marital adjustment for the sample of the study, and to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence and marital adjustment and the differences in both emotional intelligence and marital adjustment according to gender and the way of marriage. The sample of the study consisted of 232 male and female in the city of Damascus between the age of 38-52. To collect the data, both the scale of Emotional Intelligence (BarOn EQ) and the scale of Marital Adjustment (developed by Mohamad Bayoumy Khaleel) were used.