Your partner seems bored with the weekend routine you have developed together, but when you ask him about it, he says, "Everything is fine. Don't worry about it." This method of addressing dialectic tension is best described as .

Denial

Explanation:Denial is the refusal to accept reality or fact, acting as if a painful event, thought or feeling did not exist. It is considered one of the most primitive of the defense mechanisms because it is characteristic of early childhood development.

Denial is a refusal or unwillingness to accept something or to accept reality. An example of someone who is in denial is a wife who cannot cope with and won't admit that her husband has left her.

denial.

Explanation:

Generally, denial simply means the action of denying or rejecting or refusing something requested. But in Psychology, denial means an action of evading personal or even general problems. Denial is when someone act as if everything is alright meanwhile everything is not at all. People do this sometimes because they do not want to face reality or because they do not want to want to hurt their loved ones.

This is the case of my partner in the question above and he is in the state of denial because he was trying to make everything look cool and okay but that is not so, he is bored.