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    Episode 7… Telling Angie.

    Tina had left Bette, asking for a divorce, when the suffocation had become too great to bear. She felt herself getting smaller and smaller by the day, her own ambitions and needs whittled away to something she didn’t recognize. She couldn’t speak her desires to her wife, silently resenting the choices made without her input, even though Bette never demanded she go along and often asked.

    She was torn in two leaving Angie, but Bette was a terrific mother and Tina knew she would eventually become a shell of herself if she didn’t make a final, painful break. As much as it hurt to leave Angie, Tina was hurting, and would only continue to hurt more herself by staying.

    And hurt people… hurt people.

    And so she had done what she always did.

    What she had been doing since she was in grade school and her mother demanded complete obedience. She did what she knew to do… she fled, she ran, making one drastic decision after another that left their marriage in shambles and her long courtship of Bette over.

    It had been the hardest thing she had ever done, and Guilt was a frequent visitor to her couch. Because the day she walked out the door she could feel, almost hear, the breaking of three hearts.

    Tina’s eyes closed against the day, listening to the sound of Bette’s deep breathing, the distance between them now measured in miles when all she really had to do was reach out her hand and touch her soulmate.

    She woke the next morning to find that Bette was already up and in the kitchen. She changed clothes quickly, freshened up and then made her way downstairs, enjoying the sounds of Angie and Bette talking back and forth as they made breakfast together.

    She watched them for a moment, there was a flow to their morning, a clearly established and well-worn pattern to their ritual of toast and eggs and coffee and fruit. Both moved casually around each other, Angie bumping Bette’s hip playfully and Bette responding with a low chuckle as they gathered plates and silverware, flipped the eggs.

    Her Heart stopped running, if only for a moment… awash with the glow of family, of comfortableness, of a brightly lit kitchen and Norah Jones on the kitchen speaker. Of a giggly teenager and her beautiful mom.

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    1. I was worried that Heart would win over Soul but you put things right. A very hopeful ending.
      Divorce and engagement seems logical for Tina. I’m happy that Angie’s reaction helped Tina’s heart to make its way back to her soul.

      Thanks for sharing!

    2. “Anything. All you have to do is ask…” that is where Bette has been the entire relationship with Tina. Tina has always been controversy adverse and bottled up her anger, thoughts and goals believing that Bette should just automatically know what she wants or needs. And when it gets too much, she has always fled the situation rather than stand and request, demand, negotiate and cajole Bette to help her fill her needs. As this story says: it’s how she has handled her problems since she was a child – flee rather than fight. It’s the easier route even if it breaks your heart and the heart of those you love.

      And Carrie is beginning her relationship with Tina by making demands of her own. Even though it is understandable that Carrie wants Bette and Angie to know of their upcoming marriage as soon as possible, she is oblivious of Tina’s need to handle things as she sees appropropriate for her ex wife and child. In this story, Carrie is not being the supportive finance’ but a self-indulgent individual without a clue as to Tina’s perception of the how to handle the news.

      I found it nice that Angie decided that her Mama B’s well being became her top priority for the moment when she heard the news. She basically had no response for herself but immediately knew how this would be so devastating for Bette. Angie knew instinctively that this news would be a rerun of the divorce and as hurtful as the death of Kit. And seeing the surprise that Tina sees in Angie’s behavior is nothing to the obliviousness that she has to the fact that Angie is so aware of Bette’s devastating heart-break.

      Tina at this point is responding to guilt of devastating Bette and by association, Angie. Is Bette and Angie as a family really what she wants? Is she self aware enough and committed enough to do the work it will take to make Bette aware of her own needs and demands for career and personal fulfillment? Bette has always been willing to give Tina what she wants, but she cannot give her what she doesn’t ask for. In the end, this is only a first step in a million mile march to being happily together.

      In another story, there was a saying which I found profound : People treat you as you allow them to treat you. This is particularly true of Tina and Bette with each other.

      This story is really a good story. This is not the end but the beginning to a truly remarkable storyline. Thank you for writing this. I really enjoyed it.

      • Martha
        I so appreciate your thoughtful, detailed analysis of my stories – and others. You are so spot on and clearly pay attention to every detail and nuance of the story. I was trying to show the internal struggle within Tina that pushes and pulls at her when she is in conflict
        I remember that quote you referenced about people treating you the way you allow, it is so true and very apt for our Tina who marinates in her resentment.

        For some reason it did not post some of the ending so I guess I could continue it although that wasnt the plan. Might be nice to work on a story before they ruin it for Season 2 lol.

        Thanks!

    3. “Can we start over? From the beginning this time? Do it right?”..,.

      Lets hope thats what tina says to bette .. GenQ season 2.. last scene…. well i hope it happens season 3 episode 1.. well i hope we get a season 3

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