Dolores is seeing the nurse at the community mental health clinic for depression and reveals that her husband was physically abusive to her but "things are better now because he felt terrible and he has been great to me ever since." Which of the phases in the cycle of battering is Dolores describing?
1) The tension-building phase
2) The acute battering incident
3) The "honeymoon" phase
4) The resolution phase

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