"If I pick a fight, wreck the car, deliberately forget to pay the rent, and have an affair with the next-door neighbor, maybe my partner will finally realize that this marriage isn't working and ask me for a divorce." This statement reflects the self-oriented and indirect disengagement strategy of _______.
A) withdrawal
B) cost escalation
C) pseudo de-escalation
D) fait accompli

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Cost escalation involves deliberately engaging in negative behavior to make a relationship so costly for the other person that they choose to end it. The statement describes actions that intentionally make the relationship worse, fitting the definition of cost escalation.

"If I Pick a Fight, Wreck the Car, Deliberately Forget