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“Couple’s” Therapy
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Tina didn’t see Bette sitting on the arm of the sofa because she was scrolling through her playlists. Bette reached out and grabbed her arm.
“Oh my goodness,” Tina shrieked as she covered her mouth.
“Shit! Bette…wh-what are you still doing here?”
Baby, Bette thought.
Tina looked around frantically. She couldn’t look Bette in her eyes. Bette noticed.
“Sorry,” Bette giggled. “You okay?”
“Yeah. I’m fine. You just scared the shit out of me.”
Tina was flustered.
Bette tried to hide her amusement. Unsuccessfully.
“Why are you still here?”
Tina checked her watch.
“You’re going to be late for your first meeting. And you have back-to-back meetings after that.”
Tina blew out all the air from her lungs. Bette loved that Tina knew her schedule.
“Did something happen last night?” Bette asked tentatively.
Tina’s eyes got big.
“What? Why?”
Tina still wasn’t looking Bette in her eyes.
“I just get the feeling that something may have happened last….night…between…us.”
Bette let the words fumble out of her mouth.
“Oh. Umm…it was no big deal.”
“What was no big deal?”
“Nothing. Muscle memory, I guess.”
“Muscle memory?” Bette raised her eyebrows.
Tina rolled her eyes. She knew Bette wasn’t going to let it go until she told her.
“You may have felt me up a little bit.”
“Oh fuhh. I’m sorry. I…umm…”
“It’s fine. You were asleep. It’s fine.”
Tina looked down.
“I didn’t mean… Umm…”
This time Bette looked down.
“I’m gonna go for a run. You should really get ready or you’ll be late. I know how you hate being late.”
They both flashed back to that one pivotal moment when she was extremely late. They never discussed it and they really needed to if they had any hopes of moving forward together as a couple.
Bette nodded. Tina took another step towards the door. Bette grabbed her wrist this time.
“I don’t want to send you mixed signals.”
Tina looked at Bette’s fingers around her wrist. She always loved the contrast of their skin tones.
“The signals aren’t mixed. Everything is…”
“Fine?” Bette finished Tina’s sentence.
“Yep. Fine. Everything is fine.”
Tina tried to put on her best smile.
Bette wasn’t buying it. She didn’t believe her.
“Well, I’m gonna go for that run.”
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I was just finished writing my comment and boom, before i could save it it disappeared.
I’ll not begin again but i can say it was an really interesting chapter and what the most emotional part was when Bette said “i lost a baby too and then I lost you”. My heart broke in a million pieces.
It will take time but I’m confident that with Julia’s guidances they will rebuild their relationship and it will be an even better relationship.
Thank you so much for this incredible story!!!
I’m so sorry you lost your comment. Thank you for sending another one. Yes, the “i lost a baby too and I lost you” part was brutal. Yes, Tina had a miscarriage but Bette lost too. How painful.
Julia is a rockstar in my book.
TB4EE,
Looooove how U’ve filled in some of the thoughts & actions of what happened after Tina’s miscarriage. Those two had probably read darn near every book on babies & motherhood and were fully engaged in the expected life change (remem the “intervention by their friends? HeHeHe).
But I dont think they ever thought that the pregnancy might not go to term. They just didn’t know how to communicate about it.
I adore Julia.
Had to chuckle how she just about had to stop druel from appearing when she saw Bette. That shytt was funny. She has a hint Y Tina was wanting to “charge” whenever in Bette’s orbit.
She’s a gr8 therapist and skillfully asked pointed questions having T & B face each other and say what they had/do feel. Bette opened up more than I thought she would. They didn’t attack one another but had to finally say some gut-wrenching truths.
Julia’s guidance is critical in this masterpiece. Looking 4ward to the revelations and then moments when Tina will have the bulk of being vulnerable to Bette, since she is the one who must figure out how to reach Bettes’ soul again.
Thank you so much!!! Yes, I thought it was important to highlight how they both failed in communicating how they felt after the miscarriage. It was difficult for both of them. My heart breaks for them.
Julia is amazing. Hopefully, she keeps them on track. And I thought it was important to get Julia’s reaction to seeing Bette for the first time. Bette is gorgeous and she doesn’t know what she does to other people. Julia got a first hand experience of that.
Julia has some interesting tactics up her sleeve. Hopefully, they work.
I think Bette really wants Tina back so she opened up to see if she can find the path back to her. It’s going to get a little trickier as they continue to navigate the hurt and the pain and the loss and the lack of trust.
I’m really intrigued at what Tibette will discover about their own personalities. What are their “love languages”???
I think (for them) being able to speak “soul to soul” is a foundational component for re-establishing trust. We’ll see . . .