Lynnette likes to go out with her friends from time to time, but her boyfriend Harold wants to spend all his time with Lynnette. To make him happy, Lynnette decides to stop going out with her friends and spends every night at home with Harold. This is the strategy of:

  a.  selection.
  b.  neutralization.
  c.  reframing.
  d.  separation.


  a.  selection.

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