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Chapter 14
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Following the divorce Tina purchased a new home in West Hollywood. It was a modest three-bedroom patio house located on a quiet tree lined street. It didn’t have a pool but it had wonderfully landscaped front and back yards so she could indulge her passion for gardening. As Tina transitioned to her hetero lifestyle it was ironic that she replanted herself in a part of Los Angeles that has been identified as one of the country’s gay meccas. Her reasoning was that she loved the area and the community that she’d called home since moving to California. It was an easy commute to work, the gym, the park, and many of her favorite restaurants, cafés and shops.
Henry assumed Tina would move in with him and Mikey once the divorce was final but the financial settlement gave her the means to maintain her independence and autonomy. She and Henry had fallen into a comfortable routine of spending time together a few days a week and on weekends. Sometimes they spent adult time and other times it was family oriented activities with Mickey. Being with Henry in a relationship wasn’t much different from the friendship they had shared in the past except now they slept together. On the surface it appeared that she fit right in with his family, friends and business associates. Everyone accepted her as his new girlfriend but the undercurrent of her former lifestyle was always apparent if only to her.
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Henry and Tina had drinks and dinner with their social circle of friends several times per month. They were all white, middle class heterosexual couples in their late thirties or early forties most with young children. Some of them worked and some were stay-at-home moms and dads. For the most part they were associated with Henry through his work so their involvement entailed some aspect of law which dominated a lot of their conversations.
Their education, backgrounds and upbringings were so similar that diversity amongst them was almost nonexistent. They talked of current events, work, sports, kids and some politics. Tina participated and was engaging but never did she experience the type of banter that she’d enjoyed with Bette and their friends when they’d get together at the Planet or for family night. She looked around at the wife’s and girlfriends of Henry’s friends and couldn’t imagine sitting with this group of women ragging back and forth about what names they used to describe their female parts.
Tina came out of her reverie and not for the first time since the break-up realized how much she missed Bette and their friends. She missed their life, the way they communicated subtly; she missed the way that they worked together to make everything around them so beautiful. Most of all she missed being surrounded by women and feeling a part of something so secret and special.
Tina felt a modicum of happiness with her new life but true fulfillment still eluded her to the point of sometimes wondering if she’d made a mistake. She was right in that being with Henry was easy. Her relationship with him lacked the complexities of the one she’d had with Bette but what disturbed her was the discovery that although she enjoyed sex with Henry she was still sexually attracted to women. Even when she was out with Henry she’d find herself looking at women and staring at lesbian couples in a day dreamy haze. This behavior wasn’t lost on Henry. As he observed his girlfriend he wondered how much longer she would stay in the relationship before her ‘feelings for women’ emerged on top. After a year Tina still didn’t have any definitive answers.
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Hey Bat, I really love your story. I read your comments, and as some others I never believed that Bette was the bad guy in the show (probably the directors, writers and some of the audience did); I personally was shocked with the lack of impartiality in the show; but your story is different, is not as in the show. I remember hating the way Bette was treating in seasons 2, 3 and 4 (remember trying to skip some episodes when watching TV), and how they made her guilty of infidelity with Jodi in season 5 and with Kelly in season 6 (the last one never happened). IMO the main problem was the uneven relationship (after Tina left her job), the lack of communication, aggravated for the components of an alpha partner and a weak defeated one, like the old idea of a traditional hetero-couple, and they portrayed every cheating in the same way (by the way one cheating doesn’t justify another as it may be apparent from the show). But your story is different, no Bette’s cheating, no daughter; here we have a strong alpha woman, popular, powerful and loved for everybody (no for Helena of course), and a weak defeated one with a great burden of guilt who suddenly has lost the compass of her life falling in the abyss of her remorse and pretense, trying to mask her own misery; both women are suffering and a great love is destroyed, but life keep going, they may survive and thrive; this is what I like from your story. Thank so much for your post and I’m eager to read your update, pps.