List and briefly describe the five types of accounts put forth by relationship scholar Frank Fincham.

What will be an ideal response?

- Apologies include admitting that a failure event occurred, accepting responsibility, and expressing regret.
- Excuses include admission that the failure event occurred, coupled with a contention that nothing could have been done to prevent the failure; it was due to unforeseen circumstances.
- Justifications involve accepting responsibility for the event but redefining the event as not a failure.
- Denials are statements that the failure event never took place.
- Absence of an account, or silence, involves ignoring the reproaches or refusing to address them.