00:02 [TITLE] Dialectical tensions

00:07 [ MAN and WOMAN sit on a couch, arguing.] MAN: It's his bachelor party. I mean, he's my best friend. I've kind of got to go to his bachelor party.

00:10 WOMAN: We never, ever spend any time together!

00:14 MAN: You knew about this three months in advance!

00:16 WOMAN: What's the matter? I had a really awful week, and I was just looking forward to going out this weekend --

00:21 MAN: I'm really sorry --

00:22 WOMAN: with you.

00:23 MAN: you had an awful week, and I'm going to be back.

00:26 WOMAN: No, no, no. You don't understand.

00:28 MAN: It's one night! It's one night!

00:29 WOMAN: We never go out.

00:30 MAN: We spend every night together.

00:32 WOMAN: Yes, doing what? We read different books and then we watch TV, and then we go to sleep, and that is all that happens in our life!

00:39 MAN: It's a routine. We used to do other things.

00:42 WOMAN: I can't do this anymore. I want to go out.

00:44 MAN: I took you to, what, three carnivals in one month when we first met. I mean --

00:47 WOMAN: Carnivals! I don't want to go to a carnival.

00:49 MAN: It was like everything we did was rollercoasters --

00:54 [TEXT ONSCREEN] Dialectical tensions: Tensions that arise when opposing or conflicting goals exist in a relationship.