Answer:
- Reframing the situation.
Explanation:
Comforting in general terms is demonstrated as the process of assisting an individual to alleviate or relieve his/her disruptive or depressing feelings or emotions.
In reference to comforting, 'reframing the situation' includes proposing ideas, evaluations, or alternative descriptions or justifications of the situation would help the associate partner to understand the situation from a different perspective or in a different light which would assist them to overcome their distressful feelings and feel relieved. The 'reexamination of the situation' would provide an alternative view to the person through which he could understand the situation more widely and lessen his/her pain or sorrow.