Ellie wants to break up with kevin, but doesn't have the heart to tell him, so she starts criticizing things about him, like how sloppy and lazy he is and how his friends annoy her. ellie secretly, and even somewhat unconsciously, hopes that kevin will take the hint and ask ellie to break up with him. ellie's approach to ending this relationship is an example of the indirect strategy of cost escalation. true or false?

Answer is true.

Explanation:

Indirect strategy by cost escalation signals a kind of dissatisfaction simply by making greater demand on the partner involved.

The indirect strategy is a situation where the partner is a state of uncertainty concerning the relationship.

there are no options provided but you can choose among the following gender-neutral pronouns: zir, hir, eir, vis, tem, eir.

in the normal course of maintaining a pronoun-antecedent agreement, we could have used the words his or her but since we are also required to use gender-neutral language, we need to replace it with its equivalent gender-neutral pronoun.