Your friends Brenda and Pierre are a couple in a new relationship. They come to you as an expert of interpersonal communication for some advice. Brenda says she needs more independence because it seems like Pierre wants to spend every minute of every day together and she needs more space. Pierre wants to spend lots of time together because they love each other. Based on Relational Dialectics Theory and your expertise, what dialectic are Brenda and Pierre experiencing, and what advice would you recommend to this couple to balance their differences?

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Brenda and Pierre are likely experiencing the autonomy vs connection dialectic one of the core relational tensions described in Relational Dialectics ... View the full answer