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Chapter 2
“Tina, you’ve got to tell her, or at least tell Dr. Wilson. That’s a huge secret to hold back. Bette loves you. She’s not going to hold something against you that happened over ten years ago, but if there’s a problem and you can’t get pregnant for some reason…”
“I know, it’s just not something I want to talk about. We’ll see how things go today. If I don’t get pregnant this time I’ll talk to Dr. Wilson and I’ll tell Bette.”
“You can’t shut her out Tina. You need to deal with this together. She’s already said she’s willing to carry the baby herself; there’s adoption; there’s surrogacy; there are other options. There’s no reason you two can’t have your family.”
“I know but I really wanted to give birth to our first. We decided this together. She’s working so hard to carry the entire financial burden and I can’t even do my part. Lately our sex life has just revolved around making a baby. She’s so busy and so tired when she gets home that we hardly have sex anymore unless it’s insemination day. I feel like she’s drifting away from me.”
“Tina I know how Bette gets self-absorbed sometimes but you have a tendency to shut down too. You might think she’s drifting away but she might think you need space. She’s got a massive undertaking as the Executive Chair at the CAC and with the major renovations, fund raising and bringing new and innovative shows to the museum she’s got a lot going on, but she hasn’t lost sight of what’s important. She’s going to be there for you and the baby. You have to be open with her and you have to trust her.”
“I do. I know how important it is for her to be successful but you’re right she always puts family first. She’s only working this hard to make sure we are financially secure so all I have to do is concentrate on myself and getting pregnant. I guess I’m just feeling a little scared that I’m disappointing her by not living up to my part of the arrangement.”
“Tina let’s hope that the insemination works today, but either way you guys need to take time to talk and reconnect. You’ve got to let Bette know what you’re feeling. If you’re having doubts it’s best to deal with them sooner rather than later.”
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Thank you so much for this quick update; this is a very nice chapter, the story gives a unique background of my favorite couple, with Bette and Tina, having a successful career and an old failed relationship between Bette and Jody, and full support of Peggy; although the difficulties of pregnancy looks like your version of the beginning of the first season, however, I see here that Tina is aware of all the emotional and financial strain on Bette, but some communication problems can also be seen among them, especially when both of them use Alice as an intermediary in some issues. I’ll be waiting for a new update, maybe is too much to ask for tomorrow, but hopefully it would be soon. Thanks again
Heart breaking. Thanks for the post.
Hey Bat, so excited to see you posting this story again. Just love how you take some original dialogue out of the show and use it in your stories as well as fill in some gaps the show left. Don’t think it’s wise of Tina to always confide in Alice and for Bette to use Alice as a source to find out what Tina is dealing with. Tina can’t be sure that Alice is not going to tell anybody what she was told by Tina and Bette cannot count on Alice not mixing in some of her own interpretations of what Tina told her. Looking very much forward to your next post.
I like your version of Season 1. It seems as though Tina is already aware of their communication issues. Can’t wait for more.
Communication was always their problem. I understand Tina needs to vent, but she must talk to Bette and not to Alice, especially something so important about her abortion in the past.
Thanks for the update!