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Jon recently stopped a conflict with his girlfriend, Ana, and said to her, "You don't know how to have a disagreement without losing your temper and swearing!" Ana replied, "Well at least I want to confront the issues instead of avoiding them like you always do!" Jon and Ana's exchange is an example of ______

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Meta Conflict

Step-by-step explanation:

Meta conflict refers to a problem regarding how is the proper way to solve a certain conflict.

This can be seen from the case above.

Both Jon and Ana are couples who are currently engaged in a conflict.

Jon believe that the proper way to solve the conflict is by fully expressing the feeling that they have without any restriction (which explain why he lost the temper and swear)

Ana on the other hand believe that the proper way to solve the conflict is by avoiding the conflict without actually talk about it.

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