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Reflections – Chapter 19
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Bette Porter Retrospective
In the early days Bette Porter was the quintessential alpha female displaying many of the characteristics that most people associate with this personality type. She was outwardly domineering, confident, arrogant, controlling, judgmental, and competitive. She was strong in her convictions and with single-mindedness, tenacity and determination she would usually get people to acquiesce to her way of thinking. She was charismatic and knew how to charm her way into getting whatever she wanted or needed to accomplish her desired outcome. By the same token she could easily turn from charisma to intimidation or even aggression if necessary. It wasn’t beyond her scope to overtly threaten those who dared to thwart or stand in her way. Though extremely ambitious and having low tolerance for incompetence Bette Porter was never ruthless. She conducted business with the utmost honesty and integrity. She didn’t step on people, nor use subterfuge or sabotage in her quest to be a leader in her field or a force to be reckoned with in her community. She’d earned her sterling reputation in the art world purely on merit.
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Bette Porter was amazingly beautiful, confident, secure in her sexuality, predatory, and living the high life. With her Ivy League Yale graduate degree in hand she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her dream. She worked as an independent Art Consultant before opening the Bette Porter Art Gallery in West Hollywood, CA. Within a few years she’d made a name for herself among serious art collectors that afforded her the opportunity to launch the careers of several emerging artist. By exposing their works to the most influential patrons of the arts they were almost guaranteed success.
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Bette had two passions that represented the driving force in her life; art and family. She did not let anyone take advantage of her, her family or her friends. God help anyone that tried to infiltrate her inner sanctum. To her family and close-knit friends she was kind-hearted, fiercely protective, and loyal. She loved unconditionally and cared deeply about those close to her heart. No one had ever known a truer daughter, sister or friend than Bette Porter. That’s not to say she didn’t have struggles in her familial relationships. Being left by her mother as a young child to be raised solely by a judgmental bigoted father who set the bar so high that she could barely reach it left some deeply embedded emotional scarring on Bette’s psyche that she carried into adulthood.
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Thank Bat, this story is a pleasant surprise.
I’m going out to the airport, and when I return I will
read with all the attention this story deserves.
The complete constellation.
Bear hug.
Great to read about their backgrounds and Pauls reflection about them.
The need to forgive themselfs and each other before they can rebuild to a healthy and strong relationship, respect each other and equal footing based on mutual trust.
Thanks for the update!
Hey Bat, thanks for giving us some of Tina’s background, something I really would have liked to hear about on The L Word, as well as some more information about Bette’s mother. At least on the show we got to know a lot about Kit and we were even introduced to Melvin, but we never got any information about Tina’s family. Knowing about someone’s background and how they were brought up often helps to understand better why they are behaving the way they do.
Again thank you for taking the time to re-post this extraordinary story and I am looking forward to your next post.
Though BETTE did cheat on TINA her actions afterwards shows she deeply regretted the hurt she had caused yet from TINA’s viewpoint what BETTE did was exactly like her father ,the only differance being she left then rather than later like her mother.BETTE was truthful up to that point and TINA was passive up to the point where she struck BETTE.Can the past readily be forgotten ,no but heres hoping they can turn that pain into a dull ache.thanks
So enjoying this story. Love the background info especially on Tina. Thanks
Thanks Bat!
You did Tina and Bette a perfect summary of their origins.
Now is to continue their conversation line, ask for forgiveness and to forgive,
for them to find their way around.
The entire constellation.
this little text that I love,of a local journalist.
“Forgive and Ask Forgiveness Is A Virtue Of Strong and Courageous”
Of all the lessons that we must learn in this life, surely forgive is the hardest of them.
Truly forgive someone is an act of love that makes a world of good especially the one who forgives, because grows and is strengthened spiritually and is freed from the shackles of hatred to live the joy of love. On the other hand, sincerely ask for forgiveness is a gesture of humility, showing courage, good character and greatness of mind of someone worthy of another chance to continue in peace
their learning of life.