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Chapter 3 – Tina and Carrie
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Carrie put her keys on the coffee table in the sitting area and went to the kitchen to prepare a drink.
Carrie: I’m making a vodka and tonic; would you like one?
Tina: Yeah, I would. Do we have something to snack on? Chips or pretzels or nuts?
Carrie: Probably… I’ll get something or I’ll have room service bring us a snack of some kind. Are we going out to dinner tonight?
Tina: That was our original plan. I presume we will. Let’s wait and see what we feel like eating before we make that decision. I’m not sure I’m going to want to spend a whole lot of time dressing for dinner. So maybe we will do something casual.
Carrie: I’ll get those drinks.
Tina went to the bathroom and while in there she looked at herself in the mirror and saw the evidence that she had been rather emotional earlier. She saw the woman she had become. She was now 49 years old with still a nice body but beginning to show the signs of age which cannot be avoided without plastic surgery. Her neck was less tight, her eyes had crows’ feet and slight bags underneath. Her face was a little fuller than it had been ten years ago. She was still a very attractive woman; however, it was obvious that she was well into middle age. It was days like today which brought to her attention that she simply was not as young as her mind thought she was. She had seen much of the same signs in Bette. And in some respects, it had shocked her just as seeing those things in mirror on herself. Bette was now almost 54 years old. She was still so beautiful and so attractive to her.
Tina then began to think about Carrie. Carrie had just turned 40 and was a bit on the thin side. She was a blond with stunning blue eyes. She had done some modeling early in her career and had maintained some of that appearance. She exercised regularly and to excess according to some of her friends. She spent significant amounts of time producing her abstracts and promoting her artwork in the galleries of New York. She had a major show coming up in Chicago next month and had spent many days there and in New York preparing for that show.
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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.