Rosy and Trixie are an interracial, same-sex couple with two adopted three-year-old daughters. They have come to counseling as a couple because Rosy, a stay-at-home mother and wife, is "too close" to their daughters according to Trixie. Trixie reports that when she comes home from work each day, she enters a house of "chaos" when all she wants to do is relax, have dinner, and spend time with her
wife. She reports that when she tries to discipline the girls while they are acting "crazy," Rosy will intervene and diminish Trixie's requests, telling the girls to just "ignore grumpy mommy" or that what they are doing is just fine. The couple reports growing apart in many ways over the last two years they have been parents. How might you describe the presenting problem in the couple's relationship?
a. Rigid boundaries resulting in to relational disengagement.
b. Cross-generational coalition- a triangle has formed between a parent and child against the other parent.
c. Diffuse boundaries resulting in a lack of clear distinction between the couple
d. Complementary—their roles have become rigidly polarized
B
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