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Chapter 1 – Tina’s Engagement
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The day after Tina’s announcement to Bette of her pending marriage, Tina flew to New York with plans to return to Los Angeles with Carrie within two weeks to talk to Angie about her plans to marry Carrie. Tina had hoped that Bette would be present and be supportive of her and Carrie in receiving the news. However, since she could sense that Bette had not taken the news well even though she had offered her congratulations and best wishes, she wanted to think about how this news should be delivered to Angie. Tina felt a significant amount of guilt when she saw in Bette’s eyes reflect the devastation she felt about Tina’s pending marriage.
During her visit, she also sensed that Bette still held a level of anger for the process that Tina had followed to terminate their own marriage. Tina’s response was to defend herself by recounting much of their history including Bette’s character traits which Tina found restrained her ability to fulfill her needs as an individual. Rather than to have what would have been a very emotional discussion, Bette had cut the discussion off with a statement that it was Tina who required space to get in touch with her needs and wants, thus the separation. She then found someone new, therefore the divorce. What Bette failed to bring up was her feeling that she had been given little or no opportunity to make changes and accommodations for Tina’s wants and needs which would preserve their marriage. She accepted that Tina found much of her characteristics such as her less than observant nature, her tendency to assume that she knew what was best for the family and her ability to dominate the relationship and such that she needed to leave the relationship. However, Tina allowed Bette to proceed with her ways without giving much indication as to the extent which it bothered her until she believed her best alternative was to separate for a time until she found her self-identity again.
When Bette and Tina moved to New York, Tina had a job in New York which lasted a year. Bette had obtained employment at a small gallery during the first year and worked there the entire time she lived in New York. They hired a nanny to take care of Angie while both parents worked. When Tina’s job ended, Tina assumed the duties of the childcare. After five years, Tina began to feel that she wanted to work in order to meet her needs for self-fulfillment thus she accepted a position as executive producer for a new cable series which would be filmed outside the Toronto area. A month prior to the job beginning, Tina decided that she and Bette needed some space to get her priorities in order. Bette had assumed that once Tina decided what she wanted in life, she would return to discuss their relationship and how Bette and Angie would fit in. Bette would assume the primary parent role. Within the first six months of separation, there was almost no communication with Bette. She talked to Angie every few days by phone and had planned to have Angie over about one weekend a month. But then she moved to Toronto, and having Angie simply didn’t fit her work schedule. During that time, Tina met Carrie. So, Tina’s time was spent mostly on her new career and with Carrie and Angie being fit into her hiatus and holidays.
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Hey Martha,
Good to see you back.
I’m in for the journey you will take us..
So far if I’m honest i find Tina selfish, now i know they always have had trouble to communicate but to just leave, file for divorce without even giving Bette an explanation or a chance to work on their marriage, not showing up when Kit died, only a little note, very very harsh.
What did Tina and Carrie expect, that Angie would be happy? She doesn’t have Tina much in her life and now with the marriage announcement i would react the same way and big applaus for Bette pointing out what she thinks is the reason why Angie reacted that way. Are Tina and Carrie that blind and selfish?
Look forward to the next chapter, i can’t promise to always comment but will try to read it when you update. Promise me there will be a happy Tibette ending, if not I’ll not read it, I’m a diehard Tibette fan and with the spare time i have i can’t invest that in a well written story that doesn’t end with Tibette together.
Bibi28,
Thanks for your comment. I will deliver on your wish.
Angie’s response to Tina and Carrie’s announcement in Gen Q was always a mystery. When Tina is living in Toronto, when did Tina see Angie? And in the early teens when children are transitioning from childhood to adulthood, these are the years of big change. And with a part time relationship with one of your parents, that relationship will change. No relationship is going to maintain its closeness with telephone conversations and occasional visits. Anyone whose parents were divorce during their childhood years know this intuitively. Yet, Gen Q assumed the opposite.
Thanks for reading.
Welcome back, Martha! Very happy to see your story posted. I recently reread your epic Ten Years story. Thank you keeping the site viable during this traumatic time. A little escape has been needed.
Now to your current post. Tina has got to be the most selfish person in the universe. She surely can’t think that bringing another so called parent into Angie”s life is `a good thing. contrary to her feelings that Bette was taking much so much space, It
looks like she gave Tina more rope than she deserved. Its was unforgivable for her to avoid Kit’s funeral. So selfish for her to just walk knowing the importance of Kit in Angie’s and Be1te life. Then to blow back in town like nothing happened is crass. even Carrie sees that no good end is going to come with her decisions.
Thank you gain for posting. Happy Birthday Too.
majicspider60
I didn’t intend for Tina to appear selfish, but obviously that is how you and Bibi28 see her. So, I may have screwed that up a little. It was my intention to show that Tina has so little involvement in Angie’s life that she simply had no clue as to how Angie would respond. She simply does not know her child as she believes she does. Tina and Angie get along well when they are together, and they do truly love each other. Tina just fails to realize that as time goes on and with limited contact, people change. People develop different interest and have experiences which causes people to change their perspective and approach to life. If Angie had a fairy god mother, the one thing she would wish for is that her parents were still married and lived with her in the same house. She wants them together. But that is not what the reality is for her.
I also wanted to show that this response was somewhat of a surprise to Bette as well. But once she saw it, she knew the reason for the response.
Thank you for the comment. I hope you stay with this story. I am posting the first few chapters as they are short.
And thank you for your comment on my Ten Years After series. Since there are so few comments and there is no counter as to views, it is difficult to know if anyone is reading it or not. But that is life… and so we go on.
Thank you again.
WhoooHooo for another trip around the sun. HeHeHe!!! Now leave me to toast ya w/a bit of vino & a little gig
Thank you DumplinT.
Gen Q is a mystery alright, but it is also nuttier than a fruitcake
Tina must be out of her mind to actually think that Angie would be happy that she is marrying Carrie, it boggles my mind how she can just walk away and don’t consider her wife and kid.
Thank you for your comment. I hope you will read my other comments and continue to read this story. Tina will explain as best she can what happened to make her behave the way she did. Let me know what you think.
Thanks for reading.