Tina: Great, we’ve been talking about twice a day at night we usually use the webcam with Angelica.

Kit: That was a really smart gift.

Tina: Well, that’s me Ms. Practical.

Kit: Do I detect some sarcasm there Missy?

Tina: I kind of got a bit snippy with Bette yesterday. She told me she was going skiing with this woman, Janet in a quick email. Of course I reacted like this was a date for her. Turns out it was friend inviting her on a family weekend. She’ll be the 5^th wheel with two hetero couples.

Kit: T, Bette had a long time to date in New York; she didn’t do that. She was so broken she didn’t want to and she also knew she still loved you. Why would you expect her to date around now after you too have started to rebuild your family and are wearing your rings again?

Tina: I just am not used to the distance and her having a life without us and hearing about it. I also know what I did to her with my actions that split us apart sometimes I still don’t believe she’d actually come back to me.

Kit: Tina, she moved and started to build a life apart from you, but Bette’s heart never left you.

Tina: Yea, I know that and I still acted like that. Do you know she’s set up a fund for Angelica? She was also putting enough money into our joint account to pay half our mortgage for the first 6 months we were apart. My attorney discovered her deposits. I hadn’t touched the account since she left and had no idea. Her rationale was she was still partly responsible for the mortgage since our separation wasn’t finalized or legal. So even after all the crap I put her through, she was still doing the right things for us. I made her stop making those deposits. Gosh she was paying for the great place in New York, carrying half our mortgage and saving for Angelica’s future; a daughter I had taken from her.

Kit: Like I said, she never stopped loving you.

Tina: I never stopped loving her. I’m still so ashamed of how I treated  her.

Kit: You should be ashamed, but she has forgiven you and wants to move forward. I’ve been there with her too and time and time again she forgave me and never stopped loving me. Being loved by Bette Porter is an amazing gift, don’t waste it and don’t ever take that away from this baby.