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Chapter 3 – Tina and Carrie
Tina: And that is one of those things I never considered when I filed for divorce. I never considered that things would change between Angie and me. I never considered that effect would occur in our relationship. I never intended for this to happen. I cannot believe that I didn’t see this coming. I just didn’t think things through.
Carrie: I am sorry Tina. So, what now?
Tina: I don’t know. I’m going to have to do some serious thinking about this. I do not know what to do. I’m going to have breakfast with Angie tomorrow morning. I think then she and I will go to the beach and see if we can’t have a conversation. What time is our flight out tomorrow?
Carrie: We are scheduled out of LAX at 7:10 tomorrow night.
Tina: Okay. Change of plans. I’m going to stay here for a few days. But you need to go on back to New York. You have things to do. I’m going to start looking for a house and talk to Bette. I’m going to see Angie as much as I can this week. Tuesday is the election so we should know if Bette is going to be the new mayor or not. Angie may need some supervision while her mother is in the spotlight.
Carrie: Well, if you’re not going back and you are going to be with Angie most of the day, maybe I should try to catch an earlier flight. There’s no sense in me just hanging around the hotel room all day.
Tina: I’m sorry Carrie. But right now, all I can think about is Angie. I just cannot believe that I have let things get like this.
Carrie: Does that mean you regret your divorce?
Tina: I regret the effect the divorce has had on my relationship with Angie. I really need to think this whole thing through. I need to reexamine my whole decision-making process surrounding that period of my life.
Carrie: Are you questioning our relationship?
Tina: No, Carrie. I do love you. But I cannot give you a commitment until I resolve this episode of my life. I need to be clear in my mind that this is the path that I want to go on. This is about me not about you. And it would not be fair to you to marry you and then suddenly discover that I have not fully resolved the issues that I had with Bette or with myself.
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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.