Romantic relationships are an important part of people's lives. Unfortunately, relationship conflicts are inevitable and risks damaging if they are not adequately addressed (Overall & McNulty, 2017; Valor-Segura, Expósito, Moya, & Kluwer, 2014). Indeed, one of the key issues couples identify is how to face their discussions, and relationship therapists have said that problematic conflict resolution is the most challenging relationship problem to treat (Geiss & O'Leary, 1981; Overall & McNulty, 2017). For these reasons, one of the most relevant theoretical and applied goals in the field of close relationships is to study the strategies that people can use to manage conflict (Garrido-Macías, Valor-Segura, & Expósito, 2017; Valor-Segura et al., 2014). In the present research, we thus aimed to make this knowledge grow. Specifically, we seek to answer two questions. First, what types of strategies do men and women (differently) use to manage conflict in their romantic relationships? Second, may individuals' emotional intelligence shape women and h t t p s : / / j o u r n a l s. c o p m a d r i d. o rg / p i Funding: This paper was made possible thanks to the financing provided by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sports through a university teaching training grant (FPU16/03023), and by the projects "Macrosocial realities (economic crisis and social class) and psychosocial processes: Trust, welfare, altruism, and politics" (Ref. PSI-2017-83966-R) (MINECO/AEI/FEDER/UE) and "New ways of gender violence: Risk and protector factors for psychosocial well-being" (Ref.