Tina (starting to cry): But it was my fault that I miscarried him!

Bette (also starting to cry): Oh, baby! (Bette took Tina in her arms and held her tightly, both crying softly while Patricia looked at them with sympathy.)

Patricia: I can see both of you never got over the miscarriage and that affected your relationship hard.

Tina (still crying in Bette’s arms): I shut her out, pushing her away and into the arms of that bitch. I made Bette pay for what she done with Candace and I never completely forgiven her for that until three years ago when I lost her.

Bette (kissing Tina’s hair softly): You’ve never lost me, T.

Patricia: What happened three years ago?

Tina (starting to cry even harder): I left Bette for a man whom I did not love and Bette was with this woman named Jodie and was going to marry her.

Patricia: What stopped you, Bette?

Bette (wiping the tears from her dark brown eyes): I never stopped loving Tina and I realized that when I found out that she was becoming a sex addict.

Patricia: Tina, it sounds like you’ve had a hard time finding yourself and coming to terms with it, is that correct?

Tina (pulling away from Bette and sniffing back her tears): It is but I became a sex addict because I can’t help it and I’ve lost the life that I’ve always dreamed of.

Patricia: But you’ve regained the life you’ve dreamed of, but what is really troubling you.  (Tina looked at Bette with tears in her eyes and Bette looked back at her with more adoration and love for Tina.)

Tina (to Bette): I am so scared that I will fail you again just like before and I don’t want that.

Bette: You won’t fail me baby just like I won’t fail you again. We just need to be there for one another.

Patricia (to Bette): Is this the woman you wanted to marry to begin with?

Bette: Yes, I only purposed to Jodie because of the loneliness I was feeling for T.

Patricia: So you never loved Jodie?

Bette: I thought I did, but I was just trying to shut out the memories I had with Tina and it did not work. Tina was and is the love of my life and she is my soul mate.