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“Don’t beat yourself up over it. You’re doing the right thing now. Your joint arts projects at the center, your suggestion to give tribute by naming the grant after her, you carving out space in the building for her professional services office, and providing her with several significant leads for her new career as a grant writer are very evident that you are supporting her as much as she is supporting you in your career.”
“Sometimes it takes me a while, but I do learn from my mistakes which brings me to the next favor I’d like to ask. This would be considered “Act XVI” if you can help me with it.”
“What do you have in mind?”
“How would you like to have Angie stay with you for a few days in September?”
“You know I would love nothing more. Wilson, Jang Yin and Winnie will be returning to New York to start school and that house gets lonely when they are gone, but how does my keeping Angie fulfill an act?”
“You know Tina and I are ready to start trying to have another baby, right? Well the first time around was disastrous and a lot of it was my fault. I’d like to make it up to her and make this time an Act of Love. Nothing could be as bad as what we went through when we decided to start our family 10 years ago. Angelica truly is an angel sent to us, because the almost two years that it took to conceive her were the worst that we’ve ever experienced in our relationship. Even the eight years that we were separated was better than those two years.”
“I know it might be painful to recollect, but will you tell me about it?”
“Sure, it might do me good to remember so I can be sure that nothing like that ever happens again. It started with the donor search which would have been comical if it wasn’t so disheartening. When we decided to have a baby of course we had to find the perfect donor, so Alice suggested that we have a “Donor Party”. We would invite all the eligible men that we knew, then in Alice’s words we could “just go fishing in the pond”.
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Great Post, thank you.
SG
Thank you SassyGran. Glad you enjoyed it.
Great job Peggy. Fortunately, Tina and Bette have had some this conversation a 18 months ago when they were reconciling. They talked about Tina’s role in keeping the two apart during the pregnancy. Tina admitted that she stayed with Helena because she felt loved, appreciated and gratified with the attention. She admitted that she was not ready to allow Bette to fully participate in the pregnancy but didn’t have an explanation as to why. Was she punishing Bette for all the problems she had getting pregnant? Tina did admit that she never really considered what her actions were doing to Bette. She only considered her feeling and desires at the moment, That was obvious when Bette was taken by complete surprise when Tina said she wanted to move back in with Bette just prior to the baby’s birth. Anyway, this is a good time for Tina to see Emma and rehash some of those things. Why did she keep pushing Bette away? There is something more to the reasons Bette and Tina separated to begin with. Perhaps Tina is still not aware of what that is, but she needs to bring them to the surface so they will not cause the same response. And what is she going to do to avoid the same reaction with this pregnancy and the attempts which are bound to happen? How is she going to keep from feeling like a failure when each month the test say there is no baby?
Bette and Tina are in a better place and they are communicating better. They have made some drastic changes in their lives just recently. New jobs for both which are entrepreneurial in nature and call for more hours and more stress to get off the ground. Now Bette has accepted the Director of the Peabody Foundation which is somewhat of an unknown as to the amount of hours and stress in that job. They are both older by eight years and have a precocious little girl who will need her parents as much as ever. Perhaps they need to see Emma before the insemination starts. Peggy is right. Tina has to pledge to be there for Bette and their family just as much as Bette does. But she must do more than pledge, she must be ready with the tools and skills to avoid the pitfalls of her history so there won’t be a repeat.
Great bit of writing. The story of the search for the donor was priceless. I agree with Bette. I was funny unless you’re the one trying to get pregnant. Nice way to use some of the canon of TLW. There were so many little incidents like those that some times we just forget. And with stories like this, we can enjoy the enhanced version.
Thank you for this chapter….
Hi Martha, as usual your observations are very insightful. Many of your thoughts will be addressed in the next chapter or two. Thanks for reading and reminding me that Bette and Tina did discuss some of this when they got back together.
Great writing BAT2012!!!!
Peggy is so right and i am glad that Bette takes her advice in consederation and acknowlegde it.
Bette and Tina spoke about that time, but it is important that Tina looks to herself and be open about her feelings, her fears and actions.
I think Martha made good points in her comment.
Thanks for this wonderful chapter!
Bibi28. Thank you. Glad you enjoyed the chapter. Tina will definitely be encouraged to do some more introspection. Really appreciate you taking the time to read and comment.