John and Tammy Have Been Having Problems for a While

question 17

Multiple Choice

John and Tammy have been having problems for a while. When John finds out that Tammy had an affair, he thinks to himself "I mean it! This time we are breaking up" This cognitive threshold would push John into which stage of Duck's model of relationship dissolution?

• A) intrapsychic phase
• B) dyadic phase
• C) social phase
• D) grave-dressing phase

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