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Momma How Do You Know When….?” (3)
Story written on February 19, 2010 by Journey1962.
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Tina: That’s right we both had things to work on as individually so that together we could work. Two half people don’t make a whole relationship.
Bette: So if you are asking to be able to understand relationships for yourself one day. Work on being whole so that you can offer someone a whole person. Not a fragment of who you are. It’s takes time to know yourself.
Angelica: I think you two have given me a good start with that.
Bette: How is that?
Angelica: Well you and Momma T have always let me express myself with in reason. You let me be me. You didn’t tell me what to think or how I “should” feel. Like when I had a hard time looking different from everybody else. Because other people would point it out. You two always made me feel good about who is am in my uniqueness. I do know a few other biracial kids who really have a hard time accepting themselves. And none of them have lesbians as mothers on tops of being biracial.
Bette: How do you feel being a biracial daughter of a lesbian couple?
Angelica: I don’t know anything else. I know that you and Momma T love one another. So many of my friend’s parent aren’t even together. And I am glad that I biracial because there is no questioning that I come from you both when I am in public with either one of you. Let’s say if my donor were white people might question if you were my real parent. And if you had me instead of Momma T with the same donor, people would question if she were my mother.
Tina: Honey people have questions any way. And at times it has hurt my feelings.
Angelica: It has? How?
Tina: Well during that time I went back to…. men. I had gone out to dinner with the guy I was seeing and another couple when someone came up to the table and mentioned how beautiful you were. They thought you would adopted. It hurt me, but I didn’t feel that I owe them an explanation. I would get questioning looks when we were out together. Here I was with a white guy with a child who was obliviously mixed race. People will always make assumptions so I had to learn to deal with it. I’ve learned not to care what people thought about your parentage. But I did struggle with a bit before you were conceived.
Angelica: You did?
Bette: Remember we lost your brother before you were conceived. Your mother was about thirteen weeks when she miscarried. Well when we were trying to start a family we had a few struggles. We had a donor but his sperm wasn’t working out. Then we couldn’t find a donor. Then I found one but forgot to mention that he was black.
Tina: And that really threw me for a loop.
Angelica: Why?
Tina: Well she called me and told me that he would meet me at the house so that we to go to the sperm bank together. And I open the door and here stands this huge black guy. I didn’t know how to react.
Bette: We had talked about having a biracial child when we first talked of having children but we hadn’t said that it was definitely the way we were going to go. And when we were having trouble finding a willing donor race wasn’t even a thought for me. We just wanted a family. So I didn’t even think about needing to tell her that the donor was black.
Angelica: But why was it a problem that the donor was black?
Tina: I didn’t feel qualified to raise a child who was biracial. When I voiced it, your mom felt that I was rejecting who she is. I was just scared that I wouldn‘t be able to help my children through the feelings of being an other. I’ve never been an other.
Bette: But I have always known what it felt like to be an other. I had to reassure her that I could help in that area.
Angelica: I think you’ve both done a great job. You have exposed me to both sides of my heritage plus many others. You also taught me not to live by other people definitions of me.
Bette: See T, we did something right.
Tina: So where are all these questions coming from anyway?
Just then that oven timer rings.
Tina: Let’s get dinner on the table and talk more over dinner.
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B & T are great parents.
loved this… keep them coming
Your doing great keep going.
Yes, Tina and Bette are great parents and they have reared a beautiful and wonderfully intelligent daughter in Angelica. She has traits and characteristics from both of them and that makes for one fantastically beautiful, smart individual. Gread chapter. Loved it. Thanks for posting. PPS
Love this story. Please more! Thank you.
I am really enjoying the conversation that Bette&Tina are willing to have with Angelica.