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Chapter 3 – Tina and Carrie
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Bette: Tina, you left me. You never intended to leave Angie. She just got caught up in the crossfire. She loves you very much. You are still her mother, and you always will be.
Tina: I asked her if she would like to move in with me during the hiatus period once we have a place here in LA so that we could have more time together. She said no. She will not leave you. She is happy to visit me and do weekends, but this is her home. That is when it hit me. I really did leave my child, didn’t I?
Bette: Physically, yes. But we all know that you love her more than life itself.
Tina: Carrie and I are going to the hotel now. I have asked Angie to breakfast or lunch for tomorrow. I am going to ask her to go to the beach for a walk either in the morning or the early afternoon. I’ll get Carrie to hang out at the hotel. Is that okay with you?
Bette: Sure… you don’t need my permission for that.
Tina: Okay. I’ll let you know. I’ll see you tomorrow then.
Bette: Okay, I’ll walk you out.
Bette got up and walked over to Tina and hugged her much in the same way she had on her last visit. Tina felt Bette’s warmth and remembered how comfortable and welcoming Bette’s body was to her. She missed that feeling.
Bette: Tina, try not to worry too much. Everything is going to work out. It may not be what each of us wants, but it will work out. I love you, Tina. And you are still my family.
Tina: I love you too, Bette. Thank you.
Tina turned then and left the room and joined Carrie and left the house.
Carrie driving the rental car, set out toward the hotel. It was about 30 minutes away.
Carrie: Are you going to tell me what happened with Angie?
Tina: I’ll give you a summary. She does not know or understand why Bette and I are divorced. She does not understand why, I never returned to work things out with her mother. She has formed a strong bond with Bette and in certain ways feels that she is Bette’s only family. She is also adamant that Bette’s home is her home, therefore she is glad to visit me, but her home is with Bette. She basically sees our marriage announcement as a rejection of her and of Bette as my family unit. And that hurts.
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What can i say, Tina has seen the light and is finally going to try to talk with Bette about her decision to leave and then the divorce. She should have done that three years ago when she asked for time to figure herself out. The only positive i can say that she filled for divorce before getting in a relationship with Carrie.
So Carrie is nine years younger than Tina. Did Tina fall for the midlife crisis that she just throwed away her life with Bette, her supposed love of her life, just because Carrie, a much younger woman gave her attention when she was supposed to search herself and in the progress damaged her relationship with Angie because she without a real thought throwed away and moved away from her family?
And Carrie, damn, how could you think and say out loud that Bette should have done more and prepared Angie and that when Angie would see how happy they both are that Angie would be oh so happy for them while she feels Tina left her and Bette behind without any explanation and in Angie her eyes is starting a new family.
Both Tina and Carrie spoke after that with good insights but still, i really dislike how Tina handled everything in the past three years.
Best decision of Tina is to postpone the wedding. I don’t know if Bette is that open to a conservation with Tina, they need to talk but in my opinion on Bette’s timeline.
I can see that you are really involved in this story. This may not go exactly as you suggest. Let’s just say that the story will proceed in what I hope you will find to be a satisfactory manner and result. This particular scenario is a hard nut to crack and to make into a reasonable satisfying ending. But that is what Gen Q gave us – a totally unreasonable and unexplained breakup and then a fairy tale ending. And to top it off, they gave very little connection from the breakup to the reunion marriage. No continuity and no logic. And that is the purpose of this story is to suggest some path and method to get from breakup to happily ever after. Hang with me Bibi…. together we will get there. Or at least an honest attempt to get there.
Thanks for your comment.
Hey Martha,
Already posted my comment on chapter 4 before i read your reply to me.
GenQ was a disaster, no plotlines and left us bewildered. I’m glad you try to make sense of their breakup and their rekindled relationship and ultimately their second marriage.
I don’t care if you write it different than i expect, you are the writer and I’m in for this journey.
How can Tina possibly fall in love with anyone better than Bette…is Tina’s head so messed up she can’t see what’s right in front of her?? She was attracted to her in NY? That doesn’t seem to be the actions of someone trying to find herself.
Her moral background and conscious, lacked a bit, as she was ready to start looking again !
Good for Angie, laying it on the line as well, almost making it tough for Tina to thinking everything with her and Bette has been OK for the last 3 years !! Did she not really know Bette at all !
And what kind of mother only sees her daughter on high days and holidays? ☹️
‘She then called Bette and told her that she had met someone, and Bette would be receiving divorce papers within days. This was about a year after the separation. Bette was devasted’.
– This is an awful way to be told your being divorced, no wonder Bette was devastated, she didn’t know why she had no chance of fighting to save her marriage!
I can see how Tina wants to make it right with Angie and so she should be …. but it seems she is calling of the marriage to Carrie, very easily…almost to easily… did she really love her at all, I’m wondering?
Really getting into this, loving it
Janice,
Sometimes people simply do not think things through. They just respond in the moment. I think Tina was lonely. Carrie was young, attractive and showed Tina some attention. As you will see Carrie was convenient and she fit Tina’s lifestyle at the moment. Tina is totally consumed by her job and Carrie is only available part time. So read on and let’s see what happens.
Thanks for reading and commenting.