Mary Believes That Her Husband John Is Having an Affair

Mary believes that her husband John is having an affair because he has become increasingly distant and disinterested in romantic activities over the past several months and stays late at work.John is in charge of an important project at work that is running behind and claiming more and more of his time.Mary asks her 12-year-old daughter if she has noticed anything different about her father.The daughter later mentions this to her father,who responds by telling the daughter to tell her mother that he cannot deal with her insecurities right now.The nurse family therapist should assess this phenomenon as:

A) triangulation.
B) multigenerational dysfunction.
C) blaming.
D) enmeshment.

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