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Women are more vulnerable to the stress, and part of the stress situation comes from relationships. It has as participants 12 women in Behavior Therapy (BT). The objective was to describe the rules that govern those women's behavior when they stay a situation-problemdaily. The data were (1) coping verbalizations (CV), transcribed of the sessions of BT and (2) answers in the Ways to Confront Problems Scale (WCPS). CV's were considered as rule or no and compared with the answers to WCPS. The therapist's mediations were described in their functions on CV's. The WCPS appeared as frequent the coping focused in the problem (55%). However, more frequent CV's were focused in the emotion (47,1%). The coping of problems relationships for the participants is often focused in the emotion and guided by rules of it avoids. Compared WCPS and BT, BT evoked a more trustworthy description of coping.