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Can the Tide be Changed ~ Part XIV
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Previously
"I love you Babe. I promise we’ll always be a family. I promise I’ll keep working on myself and our relationship and hopefully both will improve with age. I need you to promise me you’ll work just as hard.”
Bette smiled at Tina. “I promise.” She sealed the promise with a lingering kiss and wrapped Tina in her arms and soon Tina was asleep.
Despite birthday celebrating and love making Bette could not fall asleep. She untangled herself from Tina, got dressed, made herself a cup of tea and sat on the couch surveying her home taking stock, emotionally and physically.
Bette was a proud woman, proud of her accomplishments and proud of her home. She thought back to how she felt when she had finally saved enough money for a down payment and was able to purchase her own home. Bette’s father had supported her during her education at Yale, but Bette had made it in the art world on her own merits not through family connections. She started out with unpaid internships and progressed to paying ones for professors and curators at museums and in graduate school moved up to fellowships. She had a genuine love for Contemporary and Modern art but it also happened to be an area that was more open to women. When Bette graduated with her Masters degree she was able to beat out the competition for an assistant curator position at the Modern Museum of Art (MOMA) famous for it’s art and low pay in New York.
Bette knew she was lucky not have student loans but unlike some of the other women and men she worked with she didn’t have a trust fund or additional monthly stipend from a parent or a rich spouse to supplement her income. She lived in an apartment near Columbia that she shared with two Art History graduate students. Bette didn’t have blue-blood pedigree or a high-end designer wardrobe and she didn’t regularly weekend in the Hamptons or vacation in Martha’s Vineyard or Paris but she had intelligence, ambition, charm, a sense of style and beauty.
Bette became friends with a colleague, Betsy Wellington, who often invited Bette to her parent’s and her friend’s cocktail parties. The Wellingtons had a fabulous duplex on Park Avenue and a home on the best lane in East Hampton and both were impeccably decorated. Mrs. Wellington’s taste wasn’t as modern as Bette’s but the art was exquisite and she loved how everything looked so perfect. Bette loved attending their parties and they loved having the fiercely intelligent and beautiful young woman attend. Bette was slightly uneasy when she first started attending these upper crust parties though she thought she hid it well. She had a Yale pedigree that couldn’t be denied and while she wasn’t from an old Main Line suburban Philadelphia family it didn’t seem matter in New York.
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Great Update!!!! Thank you
Great chapter Mads. Bette’s so sweet for even considering to move. And Tina’s sweet for understanding Bette’s attachment to the House. I’m glad they’re getting along.The relatiosnhip is very even, which is what i like to read in B&T stories.Good job, and thnks for telling me to breathe.
I’m glad to see they have a ‘reasonable’ quarrel, which is good to rebuild their relationship.
I almost forgot what story I was reading while on the 1st page. It almost sounded like an introduction to Bette’s life somewhere near the start of a B&T beginning. I liked it though. It’s sort of like Bette was thinking way back to the beginning of her career in art and was reminded of what she realized when she first met Tina (a house is not a home). It reminded me of myself a bit and how I tend to go the long way around instead of a straight line to get to a mental destination.
is nice to read that both of them are trying to be reasonable about what do the other want. Very good chapter!
I love the Bette history and the way Tina is staying in touch with what she wants and not backing down. They are both trying very hard to make it work and you are writing that dynamic the ebb and flow of it very well. Thanks for a wonderful story and for updating it.
Hi, MadC…I loved the Bette flashback. It gives the reader an insight into Bette’s past life so we know why she is so attached to her house. Why she works so hard and is consumed by her work, why she is driven. Her job and work defines who she is. Her house is a symbol of the success she earned w/o a trust fund or friends in the right places. It also explains why she has had difficulty w/Tina. She is so accustomed to her own way that it is difficult to accomodate another person’s desires. Excellent chapter. Glad to see they are being treated in an even-handed manner by you. Post as soon as you have time.
It has got to be ours and not mine and theres. You keep the most important things like my wife and child and to hell with the rest. thanks
thanks for the update!
ok sweet but why is Angel going to therapy at her tender age? or am I misreading that? great they’re together again…thanks, hanging out for more.
i hope they won’t fight a lot, they still need to rebuilt their relationship
Liked the back story and the way that maybe they can handle problems like mature people who love each other. Is that possible? (Saw an old Rawhide episode the other night and thoroughly enjoyed it.)
Glad to see them talking and both giving in a little. Hopefully they can work out their living plans and continue to have open lines of communication. Hoping the next chapter is right around the corner.
There is no way this is boring, I liked it…I also liked the back history of Bette. Tina made some valid points in keeping her furniture, glad to see Bette listened….looking forward to the next chapter.
Good update on this chapter and insite into Bette’s early life. Also, glad they could have a disagreement but keep there emotions in check at the same time.
Great chapter. See how things work when they talk. Thanks.
This is getting good and the way they understand each other is good!!!!!!!!!!!!