Your boyfriend frequently complains that although he loves your frankness, maybe sometime you might want to keep your thoughts about his mother to yourself. This is an example of the tension that sometimes occurs in a relationship best described as the ______ dialectic.
A) Removal-Uncertainty
B) Inclusion-Seclusion
C) Openness-Closedness
D) Connection-Autonomy
E) Inside-Outside

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The tension between wanting to be open and honest with one's partner and wanting to maintain some level of privacy or closedness is known as the openness-closedness dialectic. In this scenario, the boyfriend is expressing a desire for the girlfriend to be more closed or private about her thoughts towards his mother, which is a manifestation of this dialectic.

Your Boyfriend Frequently Complains That Although He Loves Your Frankness