Consider the following dialogue

Wife: “Why don't you have my Dad over to watch the game with you?”
Husband: “Your Dad? Nah.”
Wife: “Why not?”
Husband: “It would not be the same.”
Wife: “What do you mean?”
Husband: “With him here I'd have to watch it.”
Wife: “But you love watching it. What do you mean, have to?”
Husband: “I like being able to turn it off if I want to.”
Wife: “But you never turn it off.”
Wife: "It seems like a painless way to be with him."
Husband: “Nah.”

This dialogue may dramatize the husband’s need for __________.

A. dependence
B. counter-dependence
C. affection
D. inclusion
E. control

ANS: e

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