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S. O. (Esss Ohhh)
It had vexed Tina no end when Henry suddenly changed, almost from the moment TJ had been kidnapped, to someone who didn’t seem to want to be around his kids any longer, even after TJ had been successfully found and returned to them.
Henry continued to rant into her ear now about something the kids had done that had upset him, but she had tuned him out.
All of us have moments, big and small, momentous or subtle, when the paths of our lives pivot unexpectedly, in directions we never saw coming. How we react to these moments defines each of us, and makes us who we are.
She remembered those words now – they came from her dad as he counseled her after they’d caught on that her mom had been sleeping with one of their neighbors. His words then had helped her cope in ways beyond her years when the town’s gossiping about her mom’s affair with the neighbor filtered to her school’s grounds. Yeah, she had heard all of the whispering in the halls, and faced mockery from erstwhile friends during recess, but she found an inner resolve to ride out the suddenly rocky path of her high-school years. Things at school grew worse when her dad had an affair of his own, with a married woman on the other side of town, but this only hardened her inner resolve to ride this all out – and leave this small town as soon as she could.
At first, she’d thought that those two demoralizing events had been the worst things she’d have to experience – until Henry’s sudden pivot to nastiness.
She thought that she had enough strength, had enough resolve to make her marriage work, to keep things going with Henry no matter what, to get a different outcome from that of her parent’s marriage, which had unraveled in the face of each one’s infidelity. But it pained her to think that this was clashing with her instincts to protect her children.
Surely she wasn’t now being forced to trade one for the other? Was this, ultimately, where things were headed? A choice between Henry on the one hand, and the kids on the other hand?
Tina had felt that she didn’t have to choose, and that she could still forge a way forward to have both. Yes, she’d also privately doubted her decision to leave Henry with their kids in New York to go on this location shoot in Montana – but she gambled that Henry would grow to love them again if he spent alone time with them. He seemed to love them before; he could do so again, right?
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Thanks for the chapter!
Great to see new part of the story.
And Tina – this is Bette! You just need to jump on her and Oh wait, you just almost did it:)
Tina says (innocently): “almost did what?”
????
Hm, maybe we’ll find out in next chapter?:)
So happy to see the update. Thanks
Just had to say that I was so happy to see a new chapter to this story! Love your attention to detail and YES to more teasing from those two.
Thanks for posting!
I personally luv the early, teasing phase when you just know you’ve clicked with someone
the fighting phase, um, not so much.
Would love to see this story continued by the way! I think about that ending often. That chemistry!! Hope you’ll consider x
Hi JBLH,
Yes, will continue this. Taking a while, but getting there! Hope you’ve had a good holiday. Happy New Year!
-S
Thank you for the reply and I’m so happy to hear this news!!! Happy New Year and I can’t wait to see where this story goes.
Happy writing!
So great to have a new chapter, thanks ever so much. Always wonderful to read about their love blossoming, and right now it is on a rampage. Yay!!!!! Tina will get all her stuff together, take care of her children and tell henry to go straight to hades and beyond. He is too much of a d–k to tell her he wants out, just not much of a man, his mother had already told her so. Tina should have listened to her and run like hell. I think he has already found someone to keep him warm at night, whether it is Stockholm or New York. Good riddance to him, he’s not worth piss. She needs Bette in her life for a love that is total and complete and when the children are there they will look like a truly complete family. Can hardly wait for all this to unfold. Thanks again for posting.
Speaking of Stockholm, for some reason, I thought you’d appreciate the following one liner from Ken Dodd (RIP):
“Just read a book about Stockholm Syndrome. It started off badly, but by the end I really liked it…”
Side-splitting ????
Not picking on Swedish friends and readers out there, of course.
Thanks for commenting. Now let me get a pot for H to p*ss in, bec that’s all he deserves, right?
Welcome back skydancer!
I missed you and your story!
They met and bonded immediatley, there was a instant connection.
Henry is a asshole and it wouldn’t surprise me if he is cheating around Tina’s back. Dump him and start a family with Bette.
It is clear that Lena is history as possible lover, but i do hope she will continue to be a friend for Bette.
Fantastic update, please don’t let us wait too long for the next chapter!
So does anyone here have an ex-SO whose fine with being just a friend, after things went south between you two? For real, I mean.
I hadn’t and i doubt about possibility of this.
That’s why i always be sceptical about IC version friendship between Bette and Alice in TLW and that Alice truly cared about B&T relationship.
Hi, it’s been a long time since your last post, are you consider to continue this very interesting story?
Hi Z, yes, it has been a long time. I’ve had the next few chapters in draft, but haven’t had time to finish them. Meanwhile, a few things happened IRL, so life sucked for a while, and I wasn’t writing anything. Then a new story wormed its way into my head, in a way I couldn’t ignore so I’ve been writing that one out. May post that sooner than the next chapter for this one, and I hope you’ll like it.
Take good care, in the meantime!
S
Ok, thanks for the explanation. Then i’ll be waiting for your new story or update for this one!
Oh no, it’s been 3 1/2 years since the last entry. Please don’t tell me that COVID-19 impacted your writing.
I love this new/different story line!! When TJ arrives the intersection with Bette (Jay) will just add more and more to the story.
And, don’t forget the LA airport lounge conversation that Bette heard period to her departure. Another line of this great story!
Please write/publish more, PLEASE!