The new person you are dating keeps asking you about the status of your relationship, and you respond by joking that committed relationships always end. what conflict approach are you using?

I believe the answer is: Skirting

In skirting, we respond to a certain confrontation by making a joke.

This method is being done in order to avoid having to direcly resolve the conflict with the hope that the confronter would move along and forget about the current conversation.