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Ramblings – Chapter 24
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“Why’d you bring up your conversations with Tim? I’m not sure what it has to do with us except for the irony of it all.”
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Alice: Do you guys think he knows?
Bette: Knows what?
Alice: That his girlfriend’s making the team with Marina.
Bette: That is ridiculous.
Alice: Okay. All right. I only repeat what I hear.
Bette: Did Marina tell you?
Shane: Marina didn’t tell her a thing.
Alice: It’s what Marina didn’t tell me. You know?
Bette: Why is it so important for you to believe that everyone is sleeping with everyone else?
Alice: Because they are.
Bette: No, that’s just your little fantasy. Here is a truly radical idea for you to contemplate: monogamy isn’t just hypothetical. Some people actually do practice it.
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Bette: What are you doing?
Marina: What are you talking about?
Bette: I know it’s not my place to judge you Marina, and I don’t know what’s going on with you and Jenny, but I think this is wrong.
Marina: I’m sorry you feel that way. But I don’t think I’ve done anything wrong.
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”I was just thinking back to how self-righteous and judgmental I was that night when we were at Tim and Jenny’s house for dinner. I felt so justified with my moral indignation at what Marina and Jenny were doing to Tim; so much so that I couldn’t abide by it and insisted that we leave early. I accused you of being blasé about the whole thing when you couldn’t understand why I was so upset. What a hypocrite I turned out to be; touting monogamy yet not having the fortitude to stand on my own moral convictions.”
“I always admired you for having such strong convictions. I thought it set you apart. It was one of the many things I really loved about you. Other than the pain of your betrayal I don’t think anything hurt more than your deception.”
“I know you won’t believe it by my actions Tina but I didn’t deceive you. I did and still do have strong convictions about fidelity and monogamy. Where I failed was in my basis for holding those truths to myself. It wasn’t until I was knocked on my ass that I realized I had to get off this high horse of superiority. I acted as if I was above human frailty but found that just like anyone else I too could succumb to temptation in a weak moment. This realization and the resulting desolation humbled me more than you can imagine.”
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Oh it makes sense BAT and personally I like the way you are writing it.
Reminders of the parts of the show are good and highlight the issues to be dealt with.
I certainly did not feel disconnected from Bette in any way.
Thank you as always. Enjoyed it ready for the next post.
Thank you SassyGran. The next post is coming up. It’s time to talk about Bette’s affair with Candace.
It did make sense to me. It is important what Bette was feeling at that time and why she succumbed to Candace and betrayed her own morals. Heck, even i would have cracked. There was so much going on and her relationship was already in heavy waters, she was right, they should have had seperate then to spare them all the pain instead of bringing a baby in their lives to save their marriage.
She said very honest and thruthful things, but you had me scared for a moment that she wanted to break up and only wanted to be parents to Angie with Tina.
I can see/read that Alice played a (big)part in the down fall of their relationship with her actions,She did it with good intentions, but she caused them harm with her advice and mingling.
Ok, enough rambling, i hope i made sense, English is not my native language. Looking forward to the next chapter. Thank you.
Bibi28 You make perfect sense, and you got what I was trying to convey in this chapter so thank you for letting me know that my ramblings actually got the point across. The next chapter is posted.
BETTE had no compunction calling MARINA out yet held on to her high morals about monogamy to ALICE.While in NY she never gave it a second thought when she heard TINA needed her,she came home.BETTE held it in her mind somehow that becuz TINA couldn’t come with her she didn’t want BETTE to go.TINA was in a way asking BETTE to choose her/baby or NY and once she came back home lo and behold TINA is just fine.Breaking up another foolish thought of BETTE’s but happened anyway .Was this her way of getting out from under the pressure of job,lack of intimacy,becoming the most wanted lesbian in we-ho again,or perhaps she was over her head in self doubt about what family means coming from one so dysfunctional?When they were boring they at least spent the time with each other and at home.Trying to change from homebodies to life of the party had major setbacks for them both.thanks
The conflicting feelings of the beginning of the first pregnancy of Tina,
messed with Bette, because it was a turning point in the family life of the couple, the pregnancy period in the life of Tina and Bette unfortunately bring about change, psychological and social influencing the dynamics of the couple as their own marriage relationship.
It was a daydream on my part.
Sorry if I said something stupid.
The complete constellation.