When Partners Decide to Spend Most of Their Time Apart

question 36

Multiple Choice

When partners decide to spend most of their time apart during the week, but reserve their entire weekends for couple time, they are managing dialectical tension with the tactic called

• A) denial.
• B) polarization.
• C) alternation.
• D) reframing.

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