Rory has realized that she and boothe seem to increasingly find fault with one another and engage in coercive conflict. she and boothe are at which stage of relationship de-escalation?

Actually here in this scenario, both rory and boothe are at a stage of big egos, then restlessness, losing their mind easily, then they have lost their patience with their anger,and then also may be one out of the two would have changed as a person according to her situations in life than before, which would have affected the other one..

Ithink it's a, but i might be wrong