What Can Occur When Both Partners Treat One Another with Matching

question 14

Multiple Choice

What can occur when both partners treat one another with matching hostility, one threat and insult leading to another?

• A) Escalatory spiral
• B) De-escalatory spiral
• C) Complementary conflict
• D) Serial argument

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