Question

Carol's relationship with James is pleasant, but Carol is also starting to feel bored. She is experiencing the dialectic of: Group of answer choices
1. openness and closedness.
2. stability and change.
3. autonomy and connection.
4. integration and separation.

Answer 1

Answer:

2. stability and change.

Explanation:

Carol is experiencing a type of relational dialectics called stability-change. Simply put, stability is seen as good and desired, but too much of it makes a relationship boring, mundane. There must be some novelty, some uniqueness, even some degree of uncertainty to keep a person interested, excited about the relationship.

Answer 2

Answer:

2. stability and change.

Explanation:

Individuals in an intimate relationships often experience opposing motivations which are known as dialectics, these are the feeling of ; openness and closeness, stability and change, autonomy and connection, integration and separation.

Carol is experiencing the conflict between stability and change, the desire for a change due to boredom as opposed to the feeling of stability she is currently enjoying in the relationship.